§ 760.010.Definitions

This section sets the vocabulary for the rest of Chapter 4. A “claim” is broad by design — it reaches any legal or equitable right, title, estate, lien, or interest in property, and it also reaches a cloud on title, meaning something in the public record that casts doubt on ownership even without a competing ownership claim. That breadth is what lets a single quiet title action under § 760.020 resolve a mortgage lien, a boundary dispute, an old easement, or a forged deed all as “claims” against the plaintiff's title.

“Property” starts with real property, the chapter's main subject, but reaches personal property too, wherever the rest of the chapter applies to it. Later sections build directly on these definitions — the complaint requirements in § 761.020 describe the “property” at issue and the “adverse claims” against it using exactly the vocabulary this section sets.