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Fla. Stat. § 28.211 (2025)
Clerk to keep docket.
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28.211 Clerk to keep docket.—The clerk of the circuit court shall keep a progress docket in which he or she shall note the filing of each pleading, motion, or other paper and any step taken by him or her in connection with each action, appeal, or other proceeding before the court. The clerk may keep separate progress dockets for civil and criminal matters. The clerk shall keep an alphabetical index, direct and inverse, for the docket.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1969–1997 · leading case: Dade Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass'n v. Miami Title & Abstract Div. of Am. Title Ins., 217 So. 2d 873 (Fla. 3d DCA 1969).
Dade Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass'n v. Miami Title & Abstract Div. of Am. Title Ins., 217 So. 2d 873 (Fla. 3d DCA 1969). “, and the Official Record Books in those counties, like Dade County, which were utilizing the permissive provisions of F.S. § 28.211 F.S.A. Pursuant to such determination, the lower court held that Miami Title fulfilled its contractual obligation to furnish a complete abstract…”
Mattson v. Kolhage, 569 So. 2d 1358 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990). “The clerk is charged with the ministerial duty to "keep all papers filed in his office with the utmost care and security, arranged in appropriate files ( endorsing upon each the time when the same was filed )... ." § 28.13, Fla. Stat. (1989) (emphasis added).”
Tanner v. State, 744 So. 2d 1017 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997). “" Section 28.211 further provides that: "The clerk of the circuit court shall keep a progress docket in which he or she shall note the filing of each pleading, motion, or other paper and any step taken by him or her in connection with each action, appeal, or other proceeding…”
Meadows Dev. Co. v. Ihle, 345 So. 2d 769 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977). “29 were then amended to require that a “certified copy” of a judgment be recorded for lien purposes, even in the county where rendered, Section 28.211 then made clear that minute books were not for the recordation of judgments.”
Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1974). “Section 28.211, supra, obviously requires progress dockets to be kept in both civil and criminal proceedings.”
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