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Fla. Stat. § 712.08 (2025)
Filing false claim.
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712.08 Filing false claim.—No person shall use the privilege of filing notices hereunder for the purpose of asserting false or fictitious claims to land; and in any action relating thereto if the court shall find that any person has filed a false or fictitious claim, the court may award to the prevailing party all costs incurred by her or him in such action, including a reasonable attorney’s fee, and in addition thereto may award to the prevailing party all damages that she or he may have sustained as a result of the filing of such notice of claim.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 2013–2017 · leading case: Sand Lake Hills Homeowners Ass'n v. Busch, 210 So. 3d 706 (Fla. 5th DCA 2017).
Sand Lake Hills Homeowners Ass'n v. Busch, 210 So. 3d 706 (Fla. 5th DCA 2017). “§ 712.08, Fla. Stat. (2015) (emphasis added).”
Florida Dep't of Transp. v. Clipper Bay Investments, LLC, 160 So. 3d 858 (Fla. 2015). “§ 712.08(5), Fla. Stat. (emphasis added).”
Clipper Bay Investments, LLC v. State Dep't of Transp., 117 So. 3d 7 (Fla. 1st DCA 2013). “Further, the court found “the original reservation and all subsequent reservations” in the individual property owners’ chain of title “refer to the canals and rights-of-way as one, not as two separate rights-of-way to each canal.” Id. at 526. The court determined that “[s]ince…”
Sand Lake Hills v. Busch, 210 So. 3d 706 (Fla. 5th DCA 2017). “§ 712.08, Fla. Stat. (2015) (emphasis added).”
Lehmann v. Cocoanut Bayou Ass'n, 157 So. 3d 289 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014). “See § 712.08. The Lehmanns maintain that the application of MRTA is precluded by (1) the 1953 recording of the 1950 Thomas/Thomas deed, (2) the recording of the July 8,1982, Lehmann/Lehmann deed, (3) the payment of taxes on the disputed property by the Lehmanns, and (4) the open…”
— 712.08(5) — 2 cases
Florida Dep't of Transp. v. Clipper Bay Investments, LLC, 160 So. 3d 858 (Fla. 2015). “§ 712.08(5), Fla. Stat. (emphasis added).”
Clipper Bay Investments, LLC v. State Dep't of Transp., 117 So. 3d 7 (Fla. 1st DCA 2013). “Further, the court found “the original reservation and all subsequent reservations” in the individual property owners’ chain of title “refer to the canals and rights-of-way as one, not as two separate rights-of-way to each canal.” Id. at 526. The court determined that “[s]ince…”
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