The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XL
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

Chapter 695
RECORD OF CONVEYANCES OF REAL ESTATE

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F.S. 695.05

695.05 Certain defects cured as to acknowledgments and witnesses.—All deeds, conveyances, bills of sale, mortgages or other transfers of real or personal property within the limits of this state, heretofore or hereafter made and received bona fide and upon good consideration by any corporation, and acknowledged for record before some officer, stockholder or other person interested in the corporation, grantee, or mortgagee as a notary public or other officer authorized to take acknowledgments of instruments for record within this state, shall be held, deemed and taken as valid as if acknowledged by the proper notary public or other officer authorized to take acknowledgments of instruments for record in this state not so interested in said corporation, grantee or mortgagee; and said instrument whenever recorded shall be deemed notice to all persons; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to any instrument heretofore made, the validity of which shall be contested by suit commenced within 1 year of the effective date of this law.

History.—s. 1, ch. 4953, 1901; GS 2483; RGS 3825; s. 1, ch. 11991, 1927; CGL 5701, 5702; s. 1, ch. 14706, 1931; CGL 1936 Supp. 5702(1); s. 11, ch. 20954, 1941.

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Amendments to 695.05

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 695.05

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 695.05.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

In SHELL MATERIALS, INC. SHELL MATERIALS, INC. v. FIRST BANK OF PINELLAS COUNTY,, 50 B.R. 44 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 1985)

. . . The Debtor now seeks a determination that the mortgage violates § 695.05 of the Florida Statutes; that . . .

In STANDARD GAS ELECTRIC CO., 63 F. Supp. 876 (D. Del. 1945)

. . . Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, all of which stocks have been assigned an aggregate value of $695.05 . . .

In STANDARD GAS ELECTRIC CO., 151 F.2d 326 (3d Cir. 1945)

. . . Findings of Fact 11: “$695.05 constitutes a fair value for the Stocks proposed to be delivered to the . . . and .the Stocks, by reason of variation in market value, may be worth much less or much more than $695.05 . . .

CLARK CAR CO. v. CLARK, 48 F.2d 169 (3d Cir. 1931)

. . . appellant filed a petition asking the court to modify the decree by allowing to it a set-off of $11,-695.05 . . .