Florida Statute 713.27 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XL
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

Chapter 713
LIENS, GENERALLY

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713.27 Interplead.—An owner or other person holding funds for disbursement on an improvement shall have the right to interplead such lienor and any other person having or claiming to have an interest in the real property improved or a contract relating to the improvement thereof, whenever there is a dispute between lienors as to the amounts due or to become due them. If the court decrees the interpleader, it may transfer all claims to the funds held by the plaintiff. In such case the court shall require said fund to be deposited in registry of court and, effective upon such deposit, shall decree the real property to be free of all liens and claims of lien of the parties to the suit.

History.—s. 1, ch. 63-135; s. 35, ch. 67-254.

Note.—Former s. 84.271.

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Am. Diversified Dredging, Inc. v. Nautilus Constr. Corp., 457 So. 2d 597 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1984).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 9 Fla. L. Weekly 2229, 1984 Fla. App. LEXIS 15541

...st with the job. A dispute arose over how much money appellee owed appellant for the work, and *598 appellant filed a claim of lien against the subdivision property. See § 713.04, Fla. Stat. (1983). GDC thereupon filed an inter-pleader action under section 713.27 naming appellant, appellee, and other subcontractors hired by appellee to work on the dredging project....

...axed as part of his costs, as allowed in equitable actions. The trial court denied appellant’s motion for the stated reason that appellant was not a “prevailing party” under the statute because the claim of lien had been removed from the land. Section 713.27, which governs the inter-pleader action, provides: An owner or other person holding funds for disbursement on an improvement shall have the right to interplead such lienor and any other person having or claiming to have an interest in...

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