Florida Statute 222.09 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XV
HOMESTEAD AND EXEMPTIONS

Chapter 222
METHOD OF SETTING APART HOMESTEAD AND EXEMPTIONS

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222.09 Injunction to prevent sale.—The circuit courts have equity jurisdiction to enjoin the sale of all property, real and personal, that is exempt from forced sale.

History.—s. 1, ch. 3246, 1881; RS 2006; GS 2528; RGS 3883; CGL 5790.

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Cases Citing Statute 222.09

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Sherbill v. Miller Mfg. Co., 89 So. 2d 28 (Fla. 1956).

Cited 17 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 60 A.L.R. 2d 1445

...An injunction, preventing the sale of said property, will, if made permanent, destroy the effect thereof as much so as will an order of this Court rendering said decree null and void. This makes it unnecessary for us to determine whether said decree is void, or merely voidable. Under F.S. § 222.09, F.S.A., a court of equity has jurisdiction to enter an injunction preventing the sale of homestead property....

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Grant v. Credithrift of Am., Inc., 402 So. 2d 486 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981).

Cited 8 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...cluding that Chapter 222 places the burden on the claimant to do something more to establish his homestead claim, such as seeking a circuit court judgment declaring through § 222.08 that the property is indeed homestead, or enjoining the sale under § 222.09....

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