Florida Statute 28.32 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH

Chapter 28
CLERKS OF THE CIRCUIT COURTS

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28.32 Destruction of certain instruments.—After the expiration of 20 years from the date of the execution of any bond or other instrument held by the clerk of the circuit court or a sheriff of any of the several counties of the state, which said instrument was executed to secure the performance or nonperformance of any act or matter and no proceeding of any type is pending involving said instrument any of the several clerks of the circuit courts or sheriffs of the state are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to cancel said instruments and to destroy the same upon making appropriate notation of the destruction and disposition thereof upon any remaining records pertaining thereto.

History.—s. 1, ch. 25502, 1949.

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Hartman v. Opelika Mach. & Welding, 414 So. 2d 1105 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982).

Cited 9 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...reach, express disclaimer of the warranty, or contractual assumption of risk. (Id. at 969) Here, as in Chestnut, none of these defenses were raised by the defendant. See also footnote 2 of the opinion, 445 F.2d at 969, citing F. Harper and F. James, § 28.32, and Greeno v....

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