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.History.—ss. 1, 2, ch. 525, 1853; RS 1982; GS 2495; RGS 3837; CGL 5725.
Nature of a mortgage
Fla. Stat. § 697.02, under Instruments Deemed Mortgages and the Nature of a Mortgage.
Fla. Stat. § 697.02