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The Florida Statutes

The 2008 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 83
LANDLORD AND TENANT
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Chapter 83, Part I, Florida Statutes 2008

PART I

NONRESIDENTIAL TENANCIES

83.001  Application.

83.01  Unwritten lease tenancy at will; duration.

83.02  Certain written leases tenancies at will; duration.

83.03  Termination of tenancy at will; length of notice.

83.04  Holding over after term, tenancy at sufferance, etc.

83.05  Right of possession upon default in rent; determination of right of possession in action or surrender or abandonment of premises.

83.06  Right to demand double rent upon refusal to deliver possession.

83.07  Action for use and occupation.

83.08  Landlord's lien for rent.

83.09  Exemptions from liens for rent.

83.10  Landlord's lien for advances.

83.11  Distress for rent; complaint.

83.12  Distress writ.

83.13  Levy of writ.

83.135  Dissolution of writ.

83.14  Replevy of distrained property.

83.15  Claims by third persons.

83.18  Distress for rent; trial; verdict; judgment.

83.19  Sale of property distrained.

83.20  Causes for removal of tenants.

83.201  Notice to landlord of failure to maintain or repair, rendering premises wholly untenantable; right to withhold rent.

83.202  Waiver of right to proceed with eviction claim.

83.21  Removal of tenant.

83.22  Removal of tenant; service.

83.231  Removal of tenant; judgment.

83.232  Rent paid into registry of court.

83.241  Removal of tenant; process.

83.251  Removal of tenant; costs.