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Fla. Stat. § 177.085 (2025)
Platted streets; reversionary clauses.
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177.085 Platted streets; reversionary clauses.—
(1) When any owner of land subdivides the land and dedicates streets, other roadways, alleys or similar strips on the map or plat, and the dedication contains a provision that the reversionary interest in the street, roadway, alley or other similar strip is reserved unto the dedicator or his or her heirs, successors, assigns, or legal representative, or similar language, and thereafter conveys abutting lots or tracts, the conveyance shall carry the reversionary interest in the abutting street to the centerline or other appropriate boundary, unless the owner clearly provides otherwise in the conveyance.
(2) As to all plats of subdivided lots heretofore recorded in the public records of each county, the holder of any interest in any reversionary rights in streets in such plats, other than the owners of abutting lots, shall have 1 year from July 1, 1972, to institute suit in a court of competent jurisdiction in this state to establish or enforce the right, and failure to institute the action within the time shall bar any right, title or interest, and all right of forfeiture or reversion shall thereupon cease and determine, and become unenforceable.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1976–2023 · leading case: Joseph Lehmann & Therese Lehmann v. Cocoanut Bayou Ass'n, Inc., 269 So. 3d 599 (Fla. 2d DCA 2019).
Joseph Lehmann & Therese Lehmann v. Cocoanut Bayou Ass'n, Inc., 269 So. 3d 599 (Fla. 2d DCA 2019). “8 See § 177.085, Fla. Stat. (1983) (governing reversionary interests in platted streets when Gulf Avenue was vacated); § 341.”
Pelican Creek v. Pulverenti, 243 So. 3d 467 (Fla. 5th DCA 2018). “085, Florida Statutes (2016), which codified the common law rule in 1972, provides: When any owner of land subdivides the land and dedicates streets, other roadways, alleys or similar strips on the map or plat, and the dedication contains a provision that the reversionary…”
Whispell Foreign Cars, Inc. v. United States, 105 Fed. Cl. 596 (Fed. Cl. 2012). “Fla. Stat. § 177.085 (1) (2011) (“When any owner of land subdivides the land and dedicates streets .”
United States v. 16.33 Acres of Land, 537 F.2d 182 (5th Cir. 1976). “(a) If Miami Bank and Trust Company did retain a reversionary interest in the roads, did Sterling comply with Fla.Stat. Ann. § 177.085(2) to preserve its reversionary interest? (b) If the answer to Question 5(a) is negative, is Fla.”
Craig a. Marlowe Vs City of St. Augustine, Kevin Van Dyke, Marcy a. Van Dyke, Paul a. Leonard & Susan J. Leonard, Trs. of the Leonard Fam. Revocable Living Trust Dated 23rd January, 2007, Et Al (Fla. 1st DCA 2023). “3d at 472–73; Lehmann, 269 So. 3d at 613–14. 13 presented by the City through the St.”
Craig a. Marlowe Vs City of St. Augustine, Kevin Van Dyke, Marcy a. Van Dyke, Paul a. Leonard & Susan J. Leonard, Trs. of the Leonard Fam. Revocable Living Trust Dated 23rd January, 2007, Et Al (Fla. 1st DCA 2023). “3d at 472–73; Lehmann, 269 So. 3d at 613–14. 19 when Marlowe obtained the default judgment against Toll Bridge Company in adverse possession was not resolvable through summary judgment.”
— 177.085(1) — 1 case
Joseph Lehmann & Therese Lehmann v. Cocoanut Bayou Ass'n, Inc., 269 So. 3d 599 (Fla. 2d DCA 2019). “8 See § 177.085, Fla. Stat. (1983) (governing reversionary interests in platted streets when Gulf Avenue was vacated); § 341.”
— 177.085(2) — 4 cases
Joseph Lehmann & Therese Lehmann v. Cocoanut Bayou Ass'n, Inc., 269 So. 3d 599 (Fla. 2d DCA 2019). “8 See § 177.085, Fla. Stat. (1983) (governing reversionary interests in platted streets when Gulf Avenue was vacated); § 341.”
United States v. 16.33 Acres of Land, 537 F.2d 182 (5th Cir. 1976). “(a) If Miami Bank and Trust Company did retain a reversionary interest in the roads, did Sterling comply with Fla.Stat. Ann. § 177.085(2) to preserve its reversionary interest? (b) If the answer to Question 5(a) is negative, is Fla.”
Craig a. Marlowe Vs City of St. Augustine, Kevin Van Dyke, Marcy a. Van Dyke, Paul a. Leonard & Susan J. Leonard, Trs. of the Leonard Fam. Revocable Living Trust Dated 23rd January, 2007, Et Al (Fla. 1st DCA 2023). “3d at 472–73; Lehmann, 269 So. 3d at 613–14. 13 presented by the City through the St.”
Craig a. Marlowe Vs City of St. Augustine, Kevin Van Dyke, Marcy a. Van Dyke, Paul a. Leonard & Susan J. Leonard, Trs. of the Leonard Fam. Revocable Living Trust Dated 23rd January, 2007, Et Al (Fla. 1st DCA 2023). “3d at 472–73; Lehmann, 269 So. 3d at 613–14. 19 when Marlowe obtained the default judgment against Toll Bridge Company in adverse possession was not resolvable through summary judgment.”
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