Florida Statutes
Part I - Nonresidential Tenancies (Ss. 83.001-83.251)
83.19 - Sale of property distrained.


(1) If the judgment is for plaintiff and the property in whole or in part has not been replevied, it, or the part not restored to the defendant, shall be sold and the proceeds applied on the payment of the execution. If the rental or any part of it is due in agricultural products and the property distrained, or any part of it, is of a similar kind to that claimed in the complaint, the property up to a quantity to be adjudged of by the officer holding the execution (not exceeding that claimed), may be delivered to the plaintiff as a payment on the plaintiff’s execution at his or her request.
(2) When any property levied on is sold, it shall be advertised two times, the first advertisement being at least 10 days before the sale. All property so levied on shall be sold at the location advertised in the notice of sheriff’s sale.
(3) Before the sale if defendant appeals and obtains supersedeas and pays all costs accrued up to the time that the supersedeas becomes operative, the property shall be restored to defendant and there shall be no sale.
(4) In case any property is sold to satisfy any rent payable in cotton or other agricultural product or thing, the officer shall settle with the plaintiff at the value of the rental at the time it became due.
History.—ss. 5, 6, ch. 3131, 1879; RS 1769; GS 2245; RGS 3564; CGL 5428; s. 34, ch. 67-254; s. 19, ch. 82-66; s. 10, ch. 83-255; s. 436, 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.