Florida Statutes
Chapter 689 - Conveyances of Land and Declarations of Trust
689.045 - Conveyances to or by Partnership.


(1) Any estate in real property may be acquired in the name of a limited partnership. Title so acquired must be conveyed or encumbered in the partnership name. Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of limited partnership, a conveyance or encumbrance of real property held in the partnership name, and any other instrument affecting title to real property in which the partnership has an interest, must be executed in the partnership name by one of the general partners.
(2) Every conveyance to a limited partnership in its name recorded before January 1, 1972, as required by law while the limited partnership was in existence is validated and is deemed to convey the title to the real property described in the conveyance to the partnership named as grantee.
(3) When title to real property is held in the name of a limited partnership or a general partnership, one of the general partners may execute and record, in the public records of the county in which such partnership’s real property is located, an affidavit stating the names of the general partners then existing and the authority of any general partner to execute a conveyance, encumbrance, or other instrument affecting such partnership’s real property. The affidavit shall be conclusive as to the facts therein stated as to purchasers without notice.
History.—s. 2, ch. 71-9; s. 71, ch. 86-263; s. 23, ch. 95-242.
Note.—Former s. 620.081.

Structure Florida Statutes

Florida Statutes

Title XL - Real and Personal Property

Chapter 689 - Conveyances of Land and Declarations of Trust

689.01 - How Real Estate Conveyed.

689.02 - Form of Warranty Deed Prescribed.

689.03 - Effect of Such Deed.

689.04 - How Executed.

689.041 - Curative Procedure for Scrivener’s Errors in Deeds.

689.045 - Conveyances to or by Partnership.

689.05 - How Declarations of Trust Proved.

689.06 - How Trust Estate Conveyed.

689.07 - “Trustee” or “As Trustee” Added to Name of Grantee, Transferee, Assignee, or Mortgagee Transfers Interest or Creates Lien as if Additional Word or Words Not Used.

689.071 - Florida Land Trust Act.

689.072 - Real Estate Interests Transferred to or by a Custodian or Trustee of an Individual Retirement Account or Qualified Plan.

689.073 - Powers Conferred on Trustee in Recorded Instrument.

689.075 - Inter Vivos Trusts; Powers Retained by Settlor.

689.08 - Fines and Common Recoveries.

689.09 - Deeds Under Statute of Uses.

689.10 - Words of Limitation and the Words “Fee Simple” Dispensed With.

689.11 - Conveyances Between Husband and Wife Direct; Homestead.

689.111 - Conveyances of Homestead; Power of Attorney.

689.115 - Estate by the Entirety in Mortgage Made or Assigned to Husband and Wife.

689.12 - How State Lands Conveyed for Educational Purposes.

689.13 - Rule Against Perpetuities Not Applicable to Dispositions of Property for Private Cemeteries, Etc.

689.14 - Entailed Estates.

689.15 - Estates by Survivorship.

689.17 - Rule in Shelley’s Case Abolished.

689.175 - Worthier Title Doctrine Abolished.

689.18 - Reverter or Forfeiture Provisions, Limitations; Exceptions.

689.19 - Variances of Names in Recorded Instruments.

689.20 - Limitation on Use of Word “minerals.”

689.225 - Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities.

689.25 - Failure to Disclose Homicide, Suicide, Deaths, or Diagnosis of HIV or AIDS Infection in an Occupant of Real Property.

689.261 - Sale of Residential Property; Disclosure of Ad Valorem Taxes to Prospective Purchaser.

689.27 - Termination by Servicemember of Agreement to Purchase Real Property.

689.28 - Prohibition Against Transfer Fee Covenants.

689.29 - Disclosure of Subsurface Rights to Prospective Purchaser.

689.301 - Disclosure of Known Defects in Sanitary Sewer Laterals to Prospective Purchaser.