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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 83
LANDLORD AND TENANT
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83.19 Sale of property distrained.
(1) If the judgment is for plaintiff and the property in whole or in part has not been replevied, it, or the part not restored to the defendant, shall be sold and the proceeds applied on the payment of the execution. If the rental or any part of it is due in agricultural products and the property distrained, or any part of it, is of a similar kind to that claimed in the complaint, the property up to a quantity to be adjudged of by the officer holding the execution (not exceeding that claimed), may be delivered to the plaintiff as a payment on the plaintiff’s execution at his or her request.
(2) When any property levied on is sold, it shall be advertised two times, the first advertisement being at least 10 days before the sale. All property so levied on shall be sold at the location advertised in the notice of sheriff’s sale.
(3) Before the sale if defendant appeals and obtains supersedeas and pays all costs accrued up to the time that the supersedeas becomes operative, the property shall be restored to defendant and there shall be no sale.
(4) In case any property is sold to satisfy any rent payable in cotton or other agricultural product or thing, the officer shall settle with the plaintiff at the value of the rental at the time it became due.
History.ss. 5, 6, ch. 3131, 1879; RS 1769; GS 2245; RGS 3564; CGL 5428; s. 34, ch. 67-254; s. 19, ch. 82-66; s. 10, ch. 83-255; s. 436, ch. 95-147.

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Stroemer v. Shevin, 399 F. Supp. 993 (S.D. Fla. 1973).

Cited 3 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 1973 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15163

...The Plaintiff's personal property was then seized pursuant to the Writ of Distress served by the Defendant, Sheriff of Dade County. The issue in this cause is whether the Florida Distress Statutes, 83.08, 83.09, 83.11, 83.12, 83.13, 83.14, 83.15, 83.18 and 83.19, are unconstitutional in that they permit and authorize the taking of property without due process of law....
...If the verdict is for the Defendant, the landlord is required to pay costs and damages (F.S.83.18). If the verdict is for the Plaintiff and the property has not been restored to the Defendant, it is sold and the proceeds applied to the Plaintiff's judgment (F.S.83.19)....

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