Florida Statutes

Fla. Stat. § 696.01 (2025)

Contracts for sale of realty must be acknowledged in order to be recorded.

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696.01 Contracts for sale of realty must be acknowledged in order to be recorded.—No contract, agreement, or other instrument purporting to contain an agreement to purchase or sell real estate shall be recorded in the public records of any county in the state, unless such contract, agreement or other instrument is acknowledged by the vendor in the manner provided by law for the acknowledgment of deeds; and where there is no acknowledgment on the part of the vendor, the recording officers in the various counties of this state shall refuse to accept such instrument for record.

History.—s. 1, ch. 11813, 1927; CGL 5719.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1979–2007 · leading case: Coggins v. Mimms, 373 So. 2d 964 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979).

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Coggins v. Mimms, 373 So. 2d 964 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979). · cites it 2× “Section 696.01, Florida Statutes (1977). Recordation of the Coggins affidavit, indexed by the clerk under his name alone, therefore was not notice to appellees of a prior obligation of the vendors to sell to Coggins.”

Morris v. Osteen, 948 So. 2d 821 (Fla. 5th DCA 2007). “Alternatively, the court appears to have reasoned that the Barzanos subsequent quitclaim title took priority over the lease under section 696.01, because the lease was not recorded.”

Ridgewood Utils. Corp. v. King, 426 So. 2d 49 (Fla. 2d DCA 1982). · cites it 2× “We affirm on the appeal, but reverse in part on the cross-appeal. Appellant's counterclaim for slander of title was predicated on appellee's recording of an unacknowledged copy of the contract after the originally scheduled closing did not take place.”

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