Florida Statute 83.02 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 83
LANDLORD AND TENANT

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83.02 Certain written leases tenancies at will; duration.—Where any tenancy has been created by an instrument in writing from year to year, or quarter to quarter, or month to month, or week to week, to be determined by the periods at which the rent is payable, and the term of which tenancy is unlimited, the tenancy shall be a tenancy at will. If the rent is payable weekly, then the tenancy shall be from week to week; if payable monthly, then the tenancy shall be from month to month; if payable quarterly, then from quarter to quarter; if payable yearly, then from year to year.

History.—s. 2, ch. 5441, 1905; RGS 3568; CGL 5432; s. 2, ch. 15057, 1931; s. 34, ch. 67-254.

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Cases Citing Statute 83.02

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Florida Transp. Serv., Inc. v. Miami-Dade Cnty., 757 F. Supp. 2d 1260 (S.D. Fla. 2010).

Cited 6 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 122048, 2010 WL 4484094

So.2d 290, 291 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997). For example, § 83(2) of the Restatement (Second) of Judgments (1982)

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FORESIGHT ENTER. v. Leisure Time Prop., 466 So. 2d 283 (Fla. 5th DCA 1985).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

this aircraft. [1] See 17 Fla.Jur.2d Damages § 83. [2] See, e.g., Ocala Foundry & Mach. Works v. Lester

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Florida Transp. Serv., Inc. v. Miami-Dade Cnty., 543 F. Supp. 2d 1315 (S.D. Fla. 2008).

Cited 3 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33716, 2008 WL 988691

So.2d 290, 291 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997). For example, § 83(2) of the Restatement (Second) of Judgments (1982)

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Celotex Corp. v. AIU Ins. Co. (In Re Celotex Corp.), 196 B.R. 602 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 1996).

Cited 2 times | Published | United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida | 9 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. B 363, 35 Collier Bankr. Cas. 2d 1670, 1996 Bankr. LEXIS 559, 29 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (CRR) 84, 1996 WL 280087

elements of adjudicatory procedure prescribed in [section] 83(2). (4) If the terms of an agreement to arbitrate

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Waveblast Watersports II, Inc. v. Uh-pompano, LLC (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2020).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

lease will be interpreted as being at will. Section 83.02, Florida Statutes, applies when a lease creates

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