695.05 Certain defects cured as to acknowledgments and witnesses.—All deeds, conveyances, bills of sale, mortgages or other transfers of real or personal property within the limits of this state, heretofore or hereafter made and received bona fide and upon good consideration by any corporation, and acknowledged for record before some officer, stockholder or other person interested in the corporation, grantee, or mortgagee as a notary public or other officer authorized to take acknowledgments of instruments for record within this state, shall be held, deemed and taken as valid as if acknowledged by the proper notary public or other officer authorized to take acknowledgments of instruments for record in this state not so interested in said corporation, grantee or mortgagee; and said instrument whenever recorded shall be deemed notice to all persons; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to any instrument heretofore made, the validity of which shall be contested by suit commenced within 1 year of the effective date of this law.
Cited 14 times | Published | United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida | 1985 Bankr. LEXIS 6723, 13 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (CRR) 185
...The adversary proceeding involves a Complaint filed by the Debtor in which the Debtor sets forth various claims in several Counts. Count I relates to a note in the amount of $487,500 and mortgage which were executed by the Debtor on October 20, 1982. The Debtor now seeks a determination that the mortgage violates § 695.05 of the Florida Statutes; that the annual payments shall be extended until October 20, 1993; and that all interest be forfeited....
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