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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 73
EMINENT DOMAIN
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73.051 Returns; defaults.Any person interested in or having a lien upon the property, whether named as a defendant or not, may file his or her written defenses to the petition, as a matter of right, on or before the return date set in the notice or thereafter by leave of court. If a defendant does not file his or her defenses on or before the return date, defaults may be entered against the defendant, but nothing shall prevent any person who is shown by the record to be interested in the property from appearing before the jury to claim the amount of compensation that he or she conceives to be due for the property.
History.s. 1, ch. 65-369; s. 1, ch. 70-285; s. 27, ch. 73-333; s. 360, ch. 95-147.

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City of Dania v. Broward Cnty., Fla., 658 So. 2d 163 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1995).

Cited 4 times | Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1995 WL 421151

...The summonses gave notice that a hearing on the order of taking would occur on March 28, 1995. On March 16, 1995, the City filed a motion to intervene as provided by Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.230. However, the City did not file written defenses to the eminent domain petition as provided by section 73.051, Florida Statutes (1993): Any person interested in or having a lien upon the property, whether named as a defendant or not, may file his written defenses to the petition, as a matter of right, on or before the return date set in the notice or thereafter by leave of court....
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Golf Course Resorts, Inc. v. Dep't of Transp., 816 So. 2d 236 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2002 Fla. App. LEXIS 6580, 2002 WL 984340

...in Polk County, Florida. GCR and the Hol-loways were not named as defendants and were not served with the petition. When GCR and the Holloways learned of the eminent domain proceedings, they timely filed answers and affirmative defenses pursuant to section 73.051, Florida Statutes (2000)....
...rvene in the eminent domain proceedings, they lacked standing and were not entitled to recover their attorney’s fees and costs. In this appeal, GCR and the Hollo-ways argue that because they timely filed their answers and defenses as authorized by section 73.051, the trial court erred in not allowing them to establish their entitlement to fees and costs. We agree. Based on the language of section 73.051, GCR and the Holloways had the right to file their defenses to the petition without filing motions to intervene in the proceedings....
...While a predecessor statute included a provision for an interested person to become a party by filing a petition of intervention, the current statute contains no reference to intervention or the filing of a petition or motion to intervene. Compare § 73.05, Fla. Stat. (1963), with § 73.051, Fla....
...2d DCA 1997). We reverse the order denying the motions for attorney’s fees and costs. On remand, in order to recover their fees and costs, GCR and the Holloways must prove their allegations that they are interested in the property within the meaning of section 73.051, and they must prove the amount of their recoverable fees and costs pursuant to sections 73.091 and 73.092....
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Setti v. Broward Cnty., 510 So. 2d 1076 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1987).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 12 Fla. L. Weekly 1844, 1987 Fla. App. LEXIS 9553

similar questions or delays in the future. Section 73.051, Florida Statutes (1985) provides for intervention;
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Tampa Suburban Utils. Corp. v. Hillsborough Cnty. Aviation Auth., 195 So. 2d 568 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1967).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1967 Fla. App. LEXIS 5348

...o the particular properties herein involved may have been taken,, but this is not the proper proceeding in which to have the issue tried. It should be noted that § 73.05 Florida Statutes, 1963, F.S.A., was amended in 1965 and the amended statute is § 73.051, Florida Statutes, 1965, F.S.A....
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2007).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

personnel records are subject to Ch. 119, Fla. Stat.), 73-51 (1973) (personnel records of civil service

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