Florida Statute 73.051 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 73
EMINENT DOMAIN

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73.051 Returns; defaults.—Any person interested in or having a lien upon the property, whether named as a defendant or not, may file his or her written defenses to the petition, as a matter of right, on or before the return date set in the notice or thereafter by leave of court. If a defendant does not file his or her defenses on or before the return date, defaults may be entered against the defendant, but nothing shall prevent any person who is shown by the record to be interested in the property from appearing before the jury to claim the amount of compensation that he or she conceives to be due for the property.

History.—s. 1, ch. 65-369; s. 1, ch. 70-285; s. 27, ch. 73-333; s. 360, ch. 95-147.

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City of Dania v. Broward Cnty., Fla., 658 So. 2d 163 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1995).

Cited 4 times | Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1995 WL 421151

...The summonses gave notice that a hearing on the order of taking would occur on March 28, 1995. On March 16, 1995, the City filed a motion to intervene as provided by Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.230. However, the City did not file written defenses to the eminent domain petition as provided by section 73.051, Florida Statutes (1993): Any person interested in or having a lien upon the property, whether named as a defendant or not, may file his written defenses to the petition, as a matter of right, on or before the return date set in the notice or thereafter by leave of court....

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Golf Course Resorts, Inc. v. Dep't of Transp., 816 So. 2d 236 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2002 Fla. App. LEXIS 6580, 2002 WL 984340

answers and affirmative defenses pursuant to section 73.051, Florida Statutes (2000). The statute provides

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Setti v. Broward Cnty., 510 So. 2d 1076 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1987).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 12 Fla. L. Weekly 1844, 1987 Fla. App. LEXIS 9553

similar questions or delays in the future. Section 73.051, Florida Statutes (1985) provides for intervention;

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Tampa Suburban Utils. Corp. v. Hillsborough Cnty. Aviation Auth., 195 So. 2d 568 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1967).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1967 Fla. App. LEXIS 5348

was amended in 1965 and the amended statute is § 73.051, Florida Statutes, 1965, F.S.A. Said new statutory-provision

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2007).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

personnel records are subject to Ch. 119, Fla. Stat.), 73-51 (1973) (personnel records of civil service

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