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Florida Statutes (Last Updated: April 21, 2021) |
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TITLE VIII. LIMITATIONS |
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CHAPTER 95. LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS; ADVERSE POSSESSION |
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- 1(1) 2Five years after the recording of an instrument required to be executed in accordance with s. 18689.01; 195 years after the recording of a power of attorney accompanying and used for an instrument required to be executed in accordance with s. 43689.01; 44or 5 years after the probate of a will purporting to convey real property, from which it appears that the person owning the property attempted to convey, affect, or devise it, the instrument, power of attorney, or will shall be held to have its purported effect to convey, affect, or devise, the title to the real property of the person signing the instrument, as if there had been no lack of seal or seals, witness or witnesses, defect in, failure of, or absence of acknowledgment or relinquishment of dower, in the absence of fraud, adverse possession, or pending litigation. The instrument is admissible in evidence. A power of attorney validated under this subsection shall be valid only for the purpose of effectuating the instrument with which it was recorded.173(2) 174After 20 years from the recording of a deed or the probate of a will purporting to convey real property, no person shall assert any claim to the property against the claimants under the deed or will or their successors in title.216(3) 217This law is cumulative to all laws on the subject matter.
History.-ss. 1, 2, ch. 10171, 1925; CGL 4660, 4661; ss. 1-4, ch. 21790, 1943; s. 35, ch. 69-216; s. 17, ch. 74-382; s. 1, ch. 2013-234; s. 20, ch. 2019-71.
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Note.-Former ss. 95.23, 95.26.
