Florida Statute 76.14 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 76
ATTACHMENT

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76.14 Writ; effect of levy.—The levy of a writ of attachment does not operate to dispossess the tenant of any lands or tenements, but a levy on real or personal property binds the property attached, except against preexisting liens. Levies on the same property under successive attachments have precedence as liens in the order in which they are made. A levy binds real estate as against subsequent creditors or purchasers only from the time of the record by the clerk of the circuit court of a notice of the levy and a description of the property levied on.

History.—s. 9, Feb. 17, 1833; RS 1651; GS 2115; RGS 3416; CGL 5269; s. 26, ch. 67-254.

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Rodriguez v. Great Am. Bank of Dade Cnty. (In re Emerald Plaza West, Inc.), 47 B.R. 590 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. 1985).

Published | United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Florida. | 1985 Bankr. LEXIS 6674

...oment the trustee acquired title to the escrowed funds under the bankruptcy “strong arm” clause. 11 U.S.C. § 544 (a). It is not disputed that under Florida law a writ of attachment does not become effective until the levy of the writ. Fla.Stat. § 76.14 (1983); 13 Fla.Jur.2A, Creditors’ Rights § 115....

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Florida Ins. Exch. v. Adler, 174 So. 2d 75 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1965).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1965 Fla. App. LEXIS 4533

...The attachment statute authorizes attachment against real estate as well as against personal property. Section 76.01, Fla.Stat., F.S.A. But the statute provides that an attachment against real estate does not. operate to transfer possession of the land. Section 76.14....

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