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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. 695.20
695.20 Unperformed contracts of record.Whenever anyone shall have contracted to purchase real estate in the state, prior to January 1, 1930, by written agreement requiring all payments to be made within 10 years from the date of the contract, or has accepted an assignment of such an agreement, and the fact of the existence of such a contract of purchase, or assignment, appears of record from the instrument itself or by reference in some other recorded instrument, and shall not have obtained and placed of record a deed to the property or a decree of a court of competent jurisdiction recognizing her or his rights thereunto, and is not in actual possession of the property covered by the contract or by the assignment, as defined in 1s. 95.17, she or he, her or his surviving spouse, heirs, personal representatives, successors, and assigns, shall have no further interest in the property described in the contract, or the assignment, by virtue thereof, and the record of such contract, assignment or other record reference thereto, shall no longer constitute either actual or constructive notice to a purchaser, mortgagee, or other person acquiring an interest in the property, unless within 6 months after this law shall take effect, (approved April 26, 1941) she or he or some one claiming under her or him shall:
(1) Place on record a deed or other conveyance of the property from the holder of the record title; or
(2) Place on record a written instrument executed by the holder of the record title evidencing an extension or modification of the original contract and showing that the original contract remains in force and effect; or
(3) Institute, or have pending, in a court of competent jurisdiction a suit for the enforcement of her or his rights under such contract.
History.s. 1, ch. 20235, 1941; s. 771, ch. 97-102.
1Note.Transferred to s. 95.16(2) by the reviser incident to compiling the 1974 Supplement to the Florida Statutes 1973.

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Amendments to 695.20


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 695.20
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Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 695.20.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

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E. PATE v. RENFROE, II,, 715 So. 2d 1094 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1998)

. . . against Renfroe’s costs and fees of $48,695.20, resulting in a judgment for Renfroe in the amount of $41,-695.20 . . . based upon the trial court’s award of costs and fees pursuant to section 627.736 in the amount of $48,-695.20 . . .

A. ABREU, v. UNITED STATES,, 948 F.2d 1229 (Fed. Cir. 1991)

. . . His basic pay was $695.20. . . .

A. ABREU, v. UNITED STATES,, 24 Cl. Ct. 1229 (Fed. Cir. 1991)

. . . His basic pay was $695.20. . . .

A. ABREU, v. UNITED STATES,, 22 Cl. Ct. 230 (Cl. Ct. 1991)

. . . His basic pay was $695.20. . . .

CITY OF MIAMI, a v. ST. JOE PAPER COMPANY, a a E. Jr. S. S., 364 So. 2d 439 (Fla. 1978)

. . . Florida Statutes 695.20, enacted in 1941, voided contracts for the purchase of lands which were left . . .

ALASKA AIRLINES, a v. W. STEPHENSON,, 217 F.2d 295 (9th Cir. 1954)

. . . on the second claim is to be modified by the trial court’s reducing it to the extent of $2,-000 to $695.20 . . .

ALASKA AIRLINES, a v. W. STEPHENSON,, 15 Alaska 272 (9th Cir. 1954)

. . . on the second claim is to be modified by the trial court’s reducing it to the extent of $2,000 to $695.20 . . .

In INLAND GAS CORPORATION. In KENTUCKY FUEL GAS CORPORATION. In AMERICAN FUEL POWER CO., 92 F. Supp. 810 (E.D. Ky. 1949)

. . . There should be deducted from the balance of $383,631.62 the sum of $47,-695.20, leaving the balance . . .

JOHN A. MAHOOD v. BESSEMER PROPERTIES INCORPORATED, a, 154 Fla. 710 (Fla. 1944)

. . . (Sec. 695.20, F.S. ’41, F.S.A.) . . .

A. B. T. D., 42 Fla. 328 (Fla. 1900)

. . . Sales Flour Stub 3089 523.53 28 Sales Flour Stub 3090 756.07 1893 Jan. 2 Sales Flour Stub........3091 695.20 . . .