A mortgage shall be held to be a specific lien on the property therein described, and not a conveyance of the legal title or of the right of possession.
Fla. Stat. § 697.02
Nature of a mortgage
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Young v. Embley (2006)
Most recently applied in In re Plummer (March 2014)
History.--ss. 1, 2, ch. 525, 1853; RS 1982; GS 2495; RGS 3837; CGL 5725.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Online Sunshine (Florida Legislature). Reproduced from public-domain Florida statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.