Florida Statute 695.05 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XL
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

Chapter 695
RECORD OF CONVEYANCES OF REAL ESTATE

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695.05 Certain defects cured as to acknowledgments and witnesses.—All deeds, conveyances, bills of sale, mortgages or other transfers of real or personal property within the limits of this state, heretofore or hereafter made and received bona fide and upon good consideration by any corporation, and acknowledged for record before some officer, stockholder or other person interested in the corporation, grantee, or mortgagee as a notary public or other officer authorized to take acknowledgments of instruments for record within this state, shall be held, deemed and taken as valid as if acknowledged by the proper notary public or other officer authorized to take acknowledgments of instruments for record in this state not so interested in said corporation, grantee or mortgagee; and said instrument whenever recorded shall be deemed notice to all persons; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to any instrument heretofore made, the validity of which shall be contested by suit commenced within 1 year of the effective date of this law.

History.—s. 1, ch. 4953, 1901; GS 2483; RGS 3825; s. 1, ch. 11991, 1927; CGL 5701, 5702; s. 1, ch. 14706, 1931; CGL 1936 Supp. 5702(1); s. 11, ch. 20954, 1941.

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Cases Citing Statute 695.05

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In Re Will of Martell

457 So. 2d 1064

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jun 29, 1984 | Docket: 1522336

Cited 15 times | Published

Am.Jur.2d Wills § 1422 (1975); 96 C.J.S. Wills § 695(5)e (1957). See also Lewis v. Green, 389 So.2d 235

Shell Materials, Inc. v. First Bank of Pinellas County (In Re Shell Materials, Inc.)

50 B.R. 44, 1985 Bankr. LEXIS 6723, 13 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (CRR) 185

United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida | Filed: Feb 11, 1985 | Docket: 1074713

Cited 14 times | Published

seeks a determination that the mortgage violates § 695.05 of the Florida Statutes; that the annual payments

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