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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES
Chapter 177
LAND BOUNDARIES
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F.S. 177.085
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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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 177.085
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 177.085.

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Cases Citing Statute 177.085

Total Results: 7

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

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2023-09-08

Snippet: 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

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2023-07-14

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

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

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2019-04-05

Citation: 269 So. 3d 599

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

Pelican Creek v. Pulverenti

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2018-01-29

Citation: 243 So. 3d 467

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

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1978-10-24

Snippet: otherwise stated therein by the dedicator; s. 177.085(1), F. S., providing that when any landowner subdivides

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1978-09-27

Snippet: fee owners out to the center line. See also ss.177.085(2) and 336.12, F. S. These purchasers acquire their

Tropical State Bank v. Sunshine Motor Co., Inc.

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1939-05-02

Citation: 188 So. 595, 137 Fla. 703, 1939 Fla. LEXIS 1896

Snippet: Securities Co. v. Gardner Motor Co., Inc., 337 Mo. 177, 85 S.W. Rep. 2d 561, where it was held that a bailor