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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 47
VENUE
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F.S. 47.025
47.025 Actions against contractors.Any venue provision in a contract for improvement to real property which requires legal action involving a resident contractor, subcontractor, sub-subcontractor, or materialman, as defined in 1part I of chapter 713, to be brought outside this state is void as a matter of public policy. To the extent that the venue provision in the contract is void under this section, any legal action arising out of that contract shall be brought only in this state in the county where the defendant resides, where the cause of action accrued, or where the property in litigation is located, unless, after the dispute arises, the parties stipulate to another venue.
History.s. 9, ch. 99-225; s. 1, ch. 99-386.
1Note.As created by s. 9, ch. 99-225. Section 47.025 was also created by s. 1, ch. 99-386, and that version cites to s. 713.01.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 47.025
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 47.025.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 47.025

Total Results: 14

SACHSE CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION v. AFFIRMED DRYWALL CORP.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2018-07-18T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 251 So. 3d 1005

Snippet: section 47.025. And not only did the trial court determine that section 47.025 prohibited…real property in Florida, in violation of section 47.025, Florida Statutes (2016). We reverse that order…Arbitration Act (FAA) applies, it preempts section 47.025. However, because the trial court did not first…public policy and cited, among other things, section 47.025. At the hearing on the motion, Sachse…laws of Michigan control the contract, so section 47.025 does not even apply. But counsel stated that &

& SC16-400 Elizabeth White v. Mederi Caretenders Visiting Services of Southeast Florida, LLC., and Americare Home Therapy, Inc., etc. v. Carla Hiles

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2017-09-14T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 226 So. 3d 774

Snippet: J. Singer, Sutherland Statutory Construction § 47.25 (7th ed. 2014). This follows the conventional rule…enumerated are not excluded.” Singer, supra, at § 47.25 (emphasis added). Commonly, the term “include” suggests

SAI Ins. Agency, Inc. v. Applied Systems, Inc.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2003-11-05T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 858 So. 2d 401

Snippet: clauses are void as a matter of public policy. See § 47.025, Fla. Stat. (1999). Applied reasons that because

State v. Hamner

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2002-05-17T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 816 So. 2d 810

Snippet: sexual battery resulted in a guidelines range of 47.25 to 78.25 months in prison. His score of 204.2 for

Kerr Const., Inc. v. Peters Contracting, Inc.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2000-09-15T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 767 So. 2d 610

Snippet: rules of construction to section 47.025, we note that section 47.025 provides that forum selection clauses…section 47.025 does not apply to that provision in the subcontract. Therefore, although section 47.025 is …clause of the subcontract. Kerr argued that section 47.025, Florida Statutes (1999), which became effective…The next issue we must resolve is whether section 47.025, Florida Statutes (1999) applies retrospectively…public policy based on the provisions of section 47.025. Peters and Wausau, on the other hand, contend

Altman & Sons Farms v. Rivera

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1983-06-23T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 434 So. 2d 14, 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 19734

Snippet: in the week of the accident the claimant earned $47.25. Benefits based on the $120.00 average weekly wage…’s benefits based on an average weekly wage of $47.25, with a resulting compensation rate of $31.50 per

Brown v. Mitchell

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1963-03-14T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 151 So. 2d 305, 1963 Fla. App. LEXIS 3519

Snippet: deleted in 1955], Florida Statutes § 47.25, F.S.A. read: “47.25 Service of process upon insane and incompetent… case was not served in compliance with Section 47.25 Florida Statutes and that the court in said case…served in a manner prescribed by Florida Statutes § 47.25, F.S.A. A final decree decides and disposes of the…with process in compliance with Florida Statutes § 47.25, F.S.A.6 This court, expressly limiting itself to…testimony was in accordance with Florida Statutes § 47.25, F.S.A., so that the circuit court acquired jurisdiction

Mitchell v. Brown

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1961-03-23T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 128 So. 2d 8, 1961 Fla. App. LEXIS 2997

Snippet: process in that earlier suit was insufficient under § 47.25(2), Florida Statutes, 1941, F.S.A., in that the …decision and held that strict compliance with § 47.25, supra, is required when service of process is sought

Brown v. Mitchell

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1960-03-02T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 119 So. 2d 385, 1960 Fla. LEXIS 2380

Snippet: . Davis had not been served as required by Sec. 47.25, Florida Statutes 1941, F.S.A., and therefore the…decree, we examine the relevant provisions of Sec. 47.25, supra. It provides that in chancery cases the courts…applying to minors, are the same as those in Sec. 47.25, supra, affecting insane and weak-minded persons…this court definitely hold that statutes like Sec. 47.25, supra, must be strictly followed. Gissen v. Goodwill

Mitchell v. Brown

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1959-07-28T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 114 So. 2d 178, 1959 Fla. App. LEXIS 2701

Snippet: not served with process in compliance with F.S. § 47.25, F.S.A., and therefore the foreclosure proceedings…the second method of service prescribed in F.S. § 47.25, F.S.A., in that it shows that a copy of the summons…voluntarily it was unnecessary to serve him. Section 47.25, supra, which then and now prescribes the requirements… an individual defendant was sufficient under § 47.25, or whether it was necessary, in addition to service…custody such insane * * * person may be” under § 47.25, insofar as we are able to determine, has neither

Drake v. Wimbourne

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1959-05-13T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 112 So. 2d 27, 1959 Fla. App. LEXIS 2899

Snippet: the failure of the sheriff to comply with Section 47.25, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., which deals with the …that we are asked to determine is whether or not § 47.25, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., governing service of …this appeal is-concerned is an incompetent, and § 47.25, F.S. 1957, F.S.A., which governs service of process…one of the alternative methods provided by F.S. § 47.25, F.Si. *29A. It can be readily seen that the deputy…Cir., 167 F.2d 218, 220, which deals with F.S. § 47.25, F.S.A. and with a situation similar to the one

McVeigh v. State

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1954-06-25T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 73 So. 2d 694

Snippet: Ala. 51, 33 So. 694; Roberts v. State, 122 Ala. 47, 25 So. 238; State v. Privitt, 175 Mo. 207, 75 S.W.

Williams v. State

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1903-01-15T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 45 Fla. 128

Snippet: discretion appears. Roberts v. State, 122 Ala. 47, 25 South. Rep. 238; 21 Ency. Pl. & Pr., 982. .

State ex rel. Archibald McCallum & Son v. Smith

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1893-06-14T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 32 Fla. 476

Snippet: recover of the plaintiffs, McCallum & Son, $47.25, the value of the goods. The plaintiffs having excepted