Florida Statutes
Part I - Nonresidential Tenancies (Ss. 83.001-83.251)
83.08 - Landlord’s lien for rent.


(1) Upon agricultural products raised on the land leased or rented for the current year. This lien shall be superior to all other liens, though of older date.
(2) Upon all other property of the lessee or his or her sublessee or assigns, usually kept on the premises. This lien shall be superior to any lien acquired subsequent to the bringing of the property on the premises leased.
(3) Upon all other property of the defendant. This lien shall date from the levy of the distress warrant hereinafter provided.
History.—ss. 1, 9, 10, ch. 3131, 1879; RS 1761; GS 2237; RGS 3556; CGL 5420; s. 34, ch. 67-254; s. 429, ch. 95-147.

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Florida Statutes

Title VI - Civil Practice and Procedure

Chapter 83 - Landlord and Tenant

Part I - Nonresidential Tenancies (Ss. 83.001-83.251)

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.