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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XVIII
PUBLIC LANDS AND PROPERTY
Chapter 253
STATE LANDS
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253.14 Rights of riparian owners; board of trustees to defend suit.
(1) It is expressly provided that nothing contained in this chapter shall be so construed as to deprive any private riparian owner from bringing an injunction suit in equity against the sale provided for in s. 253.12 on the ground that the owner would be thereby deprived of his or her riparian rights granted to him or her by law; provided, that such suit must be commenced within 30 days after the board of trustees shall have overruled the objections of such owner to such proposed sale.
(2) In case suit is brought by any private owner to enjoin such sale, it shall be in the discretion of the board of trustees to defend such suit or to withdraw said lands from sale.
History.ss. 3, 4, ch. 7304, 1917; RGS 1063; CGL 1393; ss. 27, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 139, ch. 95-148.

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Cases Citing Statute 253.14

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Holland v. Fort Pierce Fin. & Constr. Co., 27 So. 2d 76 (Fla. 1946).

Cited 33 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 157 Fla. 649, 1946 Fla. LEXIS 824

...s they might direct. That in pursuance of said Act the Trustees were proceeding to sell and transfer said land to Fort Pierce Port District. Whereupon plaintiff, for itself and its grantees, filed with the Trustees timely protests in accordance with section 253.14, Florida statutes 1941, and that said protests and objections were by the Trustees overruled....
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Morgan v. Canaveral Port Auth., 202 So. 2d 884 (Fla. 4th DCA 1967).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal

...newspaper published in the county in which such lands were located in order that any person having objections would have the opportunity to present the same. If no objections were filed the trustees had full authority to consummate the sale. F.S.A. § 253.14 provided that nothing contained in chapter 253 should be taken to prevent an owner from bringing suit to enjoin such sale on the ground that he would be deprived of his riparian rights; however, such suit was to be commenced within thirty d...
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Lobean v. Trs. Internal Improvement Fund, 118 So. 2d 226 (Fla. 1st DCA 1960).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...ibed as "Government Lot 1, of Section 11, Township 43 South, Range 20 East." On April 13, 1956, the appellees advertised a large area of land, including the said Government Lot 1, for sale, and the appellant brought this suit under the provisions of Section 253.14, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., to enjoin them from making such sale and from making any further attempt to convey it....
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Anderson v. Collins, 111 So. 2d 44 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1959).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1959 Fla. App. LEXIS 2824

...lands and their ownership by private persons would interfere with the rights granted riparian owners by the laws of Florida, or would be a serious impediment to navigation or public fisheries, the trustees shall withdraw the said lands from sale.” Section 253.14 provides: “It is expressly provided that nothing contained in this chapter shall be so construed as to deprive any private riparian owner from bringing an injunction suit in equity against the sale provided for in § 253.13 on the gr...
...that the Trustees decided that there would be no interference with the riparian rights of the appellant, therefore, that there was no occasion to withhold the land from the market. “The last section cited to the court by the attorney general, Sec. 253.14, is of the utmost importance to a decision of this case....