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2022 Florida Statutes
Title XL - Real and Personal Property
Chapter 697 - Instruments Deemed Mortgages and the Nature of a Mortgage
697.02 - Nature of a Mortgage.
Universal Citation: FL Stat § 697.02 (2022)
697.02 Nature of a mortgage.—A mortgage shall be held to be a specific lien on the property therein described, and not a conveyance of the legal title or of the right of possession.
History.—ss. 1, 2, ch. 525, 1853; RS 1982; GS 2495; RGS 3837; CGL 5725.