Florida Statute 85.051 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 85
ENFORCEMENT OF STATUTORY LIENS

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85.051 Time of bringing action.—When there has been no record of a notice of lien, action to enforce a lien (if it exists without such record) must be brought within 12 months from the accrual of the unpaid rent, the performance of the work, or the furnishing of the materials, and if there has been such record, the action must be brought within 12 months from the time of such record.

History.—RS 1748; s. 18, ch. 5143, 1903; GS 2223; RGS 3530; CGL 5393; s. 37, ch. 67-254; s. 10, ch. 73-330.

Note.—Former s. 86.11.

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