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The Florida Statutes
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The 1995 Florida Statutes
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712.01 Definitions. ---
As used in this law:
(1) The term "person" as used herein denotes
singular or plural, natural or corporate, private or governmental,
including the state and any political subdivision or agency thereof
as the context for the use thereof requires or denotes.
(2) "Root of title" means any title transaction
purporting to create or transfer the estate claimed by any person
and which is the last title transaction to have been recorded at
least 30 years prior to the time when marketability is being
determined. The effective date of the root of title is the date on
which it was recorded.
(3) "Title transaction" means any recorded
instrument or court proceeding which affects title to any estate or
interest in land and which describes the land sufficiently to
identify its location and boundaries.
History: s. 1, ch. 63-133; s. 11, ch. 65-420; s. 1, ch.
81-242.
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