Florida Statute 82.04 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 82
FORCIBLE ENTRY AND UNLAWFUL DETAINER

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82.04 Questions involved in this proceeding.—The court shall determine only the right of possession and any damages. Unless it is necessary to determine the right of possession or the record titleholder, the court may not determine the question of title.

History.—s. 4, ch. 1630, 1868; RS 1690; GS 2155; RGS 3459; CGL 5312; s. 33, ch. 67-254; s. 13, ch. 73-330; s. 19, ch. 77-104; s. 424, ch. 95-147; s. 6, ch. 2018-94.

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Pro-Art Dental Lab, Inc. v. V-Strategic Grp., LLC, 986 So. 2d 1244 (Fla. 2008).

Cited 24 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 33 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 503, 2008 Fla. LEXIS 1236, 2008 WL 2679160

...Glover, Florida Commercial Landlord Tenant Law §§ 4.03-.07 (2007 ed.). These remedies are: first, the historic common-law remedy of ejectment, which the Legislature codified in 1967, see ch. 67-254, § 21, Laws of Fla.; § 66.021, Fla. Stat. (2006); second, an unlawful-detainer action under section 82.04, Florida Statutes (2006); and finally, a tenant-removal action under section 83.21, Florida Statutes (2006)....

...in unlawful-detainer actions if within the county-court amount-in-controversy limit). Second, the summary procedure of section 51.011 applies during an unlawful-detainer or tenant-removal action but does not apply during an ejectment action. Compare § 82.04(1), Fla....

...t, V-Strategic could have filed either an ejectment action in circuit court, an unlawful-detainer action in county court, or a tenant-removal action in county court. See §§ 26.012(2)(f), 34.011, Fla. Stat. (2006); see also §§ 66.021 (ejectment), 82.04-.05 (unlawful detainer), 83.20-.21(tenant removal or eviction), Fla....

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Giles v. Sun Bank, NA, 450 So. 2d 258 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984).

Cited 13 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

See 6 Am.Jur.2d Assignments, supra note 4 at § 82; 4 Fla.Jur.2d Assignments, supra note 4, at § 2. However

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Wilkins v. Tebbetts, 216 So. 2d 477 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1968).

Cited 5 times | Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

...1965, 177 So.2d 523. Tebbetts thus admitted, for purposes of her motion, all facts well pleaded by Wilkins. The pleadings before the trial court were Tebbetts' complaint for unlawful detention, the notice attached thereto, and Wilkins' answer. Fla. Stat. § 82.04, F.S.A....

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Desmond T. Kenner v. State, 208 So. 3d 271 (Fla. 5th DCA 2016).

Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 18444

effect the death of any particular individual.” § 82.04(2), Fla. Stat. (2008). An act is considered “imminently

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Matthews v. Matthews, 141 So. 2d 799 (Fla. 1st DCA 1962).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 96 A.L.R. 2d 1231

Prac., Domicile, § 17. [3] 17A Am.Jur., Domicil, § 82. [4] 30 A.L.R. 607. [5] Miller v. Nelson, 160 Fla

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Babsdon Co. v. Thrifty Parking Co., 149 So. 2d 566 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1963).

Cited 1 times | Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

of title but merely the .right of possession, § 82.04, Fla.Stat., F.S.A., in no way detracted from, nor

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Elizabeth Estevill v. Tomas Estevill (Fla. 3d DCA 2024).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

damages.” § 82.03(1), Fla. Stat. (2023). See also § 82.04, Fla. Stat. (2023) (providing that in an unlawful

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Richards v. Finlay, 259 So. 2d 167 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1972).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1972 Fla. App. LEXIS 7049

statutory proceeding for unlawful detainer (F.S. Section 82.04, F. S.A.). The appellees filed a so-called crossclaim

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John a. Thompson, Etc. v. Stephen a. Thompson, Etc. (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2022).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

unlawful detainer action in county court under section 82.04, Florida Statutes (2019), seeking to remove

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Forbes v. Nat'l Indus. Bank of Miami, 243 So. 2d 613 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1971).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1971 Fla. App. LEXIS 5444

detention action under the provisions of Florida Statute 82.04, F.S.A. in the Court of Record of Broward

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Cont'l Coffee Co. of Florida v. Sklar, 479 So. 2d 255 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 10 Fla. L. Weekly 2696, 1985 Fla. App. LEXIS 17217

the consent of the party entitled to possession. § 82.04(1), Fla.Stat. (1981). In this case, by entering

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