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Fla. Stat. § 47.011 (2025)

Where actions may be begun.

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47.011 Where actions may be begun.—Actions shall be brought only in the county where the defendant resides, where the cause of action accrued, or where the property in litigation is located. This section shall not apply to actions against nonresidents.

History.—s. 7, Nov. 21, 1829; s. 1, ch. 3721, 1887; RS 998; GS 1383; RGS 2579; CGL 4219; s. 24, ch. 57-1; s. 12, ch. 63-572; s. 6, ch. 65-1; s. 3, ch. 67-254; s. 11, ch. 73-334.

Note.—Former s. 46.01.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 294 cases (18 in the last 5 years), 1968–2026 · leading case: Bush v. State, 945 So. 2d 1207 (Fla. 2006).

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Bush v. State, 945 So. 2d 1207 (Fla. 2006). · cites it 4× “" § 47.011, Fla. Stat. (2005). This statute is consonant with the common law "home venue privilege," which governs suits against government entities in Florida: It has long been the established common law of Florida that venue in civil actions brought against the state or one of…”

McDaniel Reserve Realty Holdings, LLC v. B.S.E. Consultants, Inc., 39 So. 3d 504 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010). · cites it 6× “- Section 47.011, Florida Statutes, the general venue statute, provides that actions shall be brought “only in the county where the defendant resides, where the cause of action accrued, or where the property in litigation is located.”

Goedmakers v. Goedmakers, 520 So. 2d 575 (Fla. 1988). · cites it 9× “Goedmakers filed a simple petition for dissolution of marriage in Dade County, Florida, alleging only that the marriage was irretrievably broken.”

FLORIDA Pub. SERV. v. Triple\ A\" Enter.", 387 So. 2d 940 (Fla. 1980). · cites it 5× “This cause is before us by petition for writ of certiorari to review an interlocutory order of the Circuit Court of the 19th Judicial Circuit in and for Martin County holding that section 47.011, Florida Statutes (1977), is unconstitutional.”

Gaboury v. Flagler Hosp., Inc., 316 So. 2d 642 (Fla. 4th DCA 1975). · cites it 6× “Johns County for lack of venue in Orange County, Florida, Fla. Stat. § 47.011 (1973), and because of convenience of the parties, Fla.”

Stovall v. Cooper, 860 So. 2d 5 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003). · cites it 3× “" See § 47.011, Fla. Stat. (2001). There is no specific venue statute applicable to petitions for writs of mandamus.”

Aluia v. Dyck-O'Neal, Inc., 205 So. 3d 768 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016). · cites it 2× “Florida’s general venue provision, section 47.011, Florida Statutes (2014), provides that “[ajctions shall be brought only in the county where the defendant resides, where the cause of action accrued, or where the property in litigation is located.”

Bingham v. Manson, 363 So. 2d 370 (Fla. 1st DCA 1978). · cites it 6× “[9] It will be noted that in both F.S. 47.011 and 47.051 the legislature saw fit to employ the limiting word "only".”

Brown v. Nagelhout, 84 So. 3d 304 (Fla. 2012). · cites it 3× “Section 47.011, Florida Statutes (2011), provides that “[ajctions shall be brought only in the county where the defendant resides, where the cause of action accrued, or where the property in litigation is located.”

Metnick & Levy, P.A. v. Seuling, 123 So. 3d 639 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013). · cites it 3× “Where a defendant is a Florida resident, section 47.011, Florida Statutes (2012), dictates that a cause of action may be brought in a county “where the defendant resides, where the cause of action accrued, or where the property in litigation is located.”

Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP v. Cedar Resources, Inc., 761 So. 2d 1131 (Fla. 2d DCA 1999). · cites it 3× “See § 47.011, Fla. Stat. (1997). The trial court came to the wrong legal conclusion in resolving the motion to transfer because it applied the wrong law to this case.”

Eggers v. Eggers, 776 So. 2d 1096 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001). · cites it 2× “122 which provides: For the convenience of the parties or witnesses or in the interest of justice, any court of record may transfer any civil action to any other court of record in which it might have been brought. *1098 Frederick did not assert in his motion or at the hearing…”

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