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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VIII
LIMITATIONS
Chapter 95
LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS; ADVERSE POSSESSION
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95.13 Real property actions; possession by legal owner presumed.In every action to recover real property or its possession, the person establishing legal title to the property shall be presumed to have been possessed of it within the time prescribed by law. The occupation of the property by any other person shall be in subordination to the legal title unless the property was possessed adversely to the legal title for 7 years before the commencement of the action.
History.s. 4, ch. 1869, 1872; RS 1289; GS 1720; RGS 2934; CGL 4654; s. 9, ch. 74-382.

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Cases Citing Statute 95.13

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Todd v. United States, 384 F. Supp. 1284 (M.D. Fla. 1975).

Cited 16 times | Published | District Court, M.D. Florida

...his action, and Final Judgment shall be entered in favor of the United States. NOTES [1] The Ashland-Anniston-Talladega area falls within the Eastern United States Mountainous Area designated by Part 95 of the Federal Aviation Regulations. 14 C.F.R. § 95.13 (1967)....
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Palmer v. Greene, 31 So. 2d 706 (Fla. 1947).

Cited 12 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 159 Fla. 174, 1947 Fla. LEXIS 748

presumed to be in subordination to the legal title, F. S. 95.13, F.S.A. which legal title is held by the Greenes
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Wilson v. Tanner, 346 So. 2d 1077 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977).

Cited 7 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...He also cultivated a portion of the land. He turned possession of it over to B.J. Alderman in 1929, who in turn deeded it to Lorene in the late 1960's. Thus there was clear, positive proof of unbroken and continuous adverse possession for the required seven years. [4] § 95.13, Fla....
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Moore v. Musa, 198 So. 2d 843 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1967).

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

...ncement of such action; and the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the passage of the title from the state or the United States." [4] See McKelvey v. Rodriquez, supra note 1. [5] 4 Tiffany, Real Property § 1142 at 424 (3rd ed. 1939); § 95.13, Fla....
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Grant v. Strickland, 385 So. 2d 1123 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...Smythe, 109 So.2d 202 (Fla. 2d DCA 1959). [12] Baugher v. Boley, supra, at 984. [13] The question of whether a fence constitutes a substantial enclosure is normally one for the jury. Wilson v. Tanner, 346 So.2d 1077, 1078 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977). [14] Section 95.13....
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Atl. Land & Improvement Co. v. Davis, 70 So. 2d 910 (Fla. 1954).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1954 Fla. LEXIS 1307

action.” The quotation is the exact language of Section 95.13, Florida Statutes 1951, F.S.A. We have construed
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Steputat & Co. v. Bidwell, 599 So. 2d 762 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1992).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1992 Fla. App. LEXIS 5824, 1992 WL 118462

entitled to the presumption of possession under section 95.13, Florida Statutes (1991), because she had established
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Water Control Dist. of South Brevard v. Davidson, 638 So. 2d 521 (Fla. 2d DCA 1994).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 1994 Fla. App. LEXIS 3906, 1994 WL 151312

Tanner, 346 So.2d 1077, 1080 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977); § 95.13, Fla.Stat. (1991) (in adverse possession, presumption

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