27.12
Power to compromise.
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27.12 Power to compromise.—
(1) The state attorney may, with the approval of the Department of Financial Services, compromise and settle all judgments, claims, and demands in favor of the state in his or her circuit against defaulting collectors of revenue, sheriffs and other officers, and the sureties on their bonds, on such terms as the state attorney may deem equitable and proper.
(2) Any such compromise or settlement may be made with any of the sureties of such defaulting officer as to his or her individual liability, and a receipt to such surety shall be a discharge of his or her obligation; but the discharge of one or more of the sureties so compromised and settled with shall not operate as a discharge of the principal or other sureties from the judgment, claim, or demand in favor of the state.
History.—s. 1, ch. 3236, 1881; RS 1351; GS 1786; RGS 3016; CGL 4752; ss. 12, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 122, ch. 95-147; s. 82, ch. 2003-261.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1988–2024 · leading case: Haynes v. Lloyd
Haynes v. Lloyd (1988)
“Gray, The Law of Torts § 27.12 p. 238 n. 61 (2d Ed. 1986). In Sadowsky v.”
Iber v. RPA Intern. Corp. (1991)
“he coexistence of two factors, reflecting the viewpoint of each of the two parties involved: (1) The landowner must so conduct his activities on his property, by way of carrying out his business or arranging his premises, that (2) it reasonably appears to the person coming onto…”
Fowler v. United States (2024)
“13 (establishing procedures for Florida State Attorneys to report settlements to the State’s Department of Financial Services); id. § 55.”
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