Florida Statute 177.085 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES

Chapter 177
LAND BOUNDARIES

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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.

History.—ss. 1, 2, ch. 72-257; s. 50, ch. 73-333; s. 936, ch. 95-147.

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JOSEPH LEHMANN AND THERESE LEHMANN v. COCOANUT BAYOU ASSOCIATION, INC.

269 So. 3d 599

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Apr 5, 2019 | Docket: 14883384

Cited 1 times | Published

the land was vacated by Sarasota County.8 See § 177.085, Fla. Stat. (1983) (governing reversionary interests

CRAIG A. MARLOWE vs CITY OF ST. AUGUSTINE, KEVIN VAN DYKE, MARCY A. VAN DYKE, PAUL A. LEONARD AND SUSAN J. LEONARD, TRUSTEES OF THE LEONARD FAMILY REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST DATED 23RD JANUARY, 2007, ET AL

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Sep 8, 2023 | Docket: 68034255

Published

the City’s and the Van Dykes’ argument that section 177.085(2), Florida Statutes (1972), undermines Marlowe’s

CRAIG A. MARLOWE vs CITY OF ST. AUGUSTINE, KEVIN VAN DYKE, MARCY A. VAN DYKE, PAUL A. LEONARD AND SUSAN J. LEONARD, TRUSTEES OF THE LEONARD FAMILY REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST DATED 23RD JANUARY, 2007, ET AL

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jul 14, 2023 | Docket: 68034255

Published

the City’s and the Van Dykes’ argument that section 177.085(2), Florida Statutes (1972), undermines Marlowe’s

Pelican Creek v. Pulverenti

243 So. 3d 467

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jan 29, 2018 | Docket: 6300768

Published

same rule to canals). Additionally, section 177.085, Florida Statutes (2016), which codified the

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