Florida Statute 47.031 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 47
VENUE

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47.031 Venue of receiverships when property in more than one circuit.—When an application is made for a receiver of property and it is located in more than one judicial circuit, the court appointing the receiver has jurisdiction over the entire property for the purposes of that action but the application for the receiver must be made to the circuit court in which the principal place of business, residence or office of defendant is located.

History.—s. 1, ch. 4986, 1901; GS 1861; RGS 3106; CGL 4890; s. 3, ch. 67-254.

Note.—Former s. 62.03.

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United States v. Leland Wayne Long, & Benjamin Charles Smith, 674 F.2d 848 (11th Cir. 1982).

Cited 50 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 19642, 10 Fed. R. Serv. 438

registered or has temporary authorization. Section 47.31 of 14 C.F.R. does provide 90 days temporary

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Guar. Title & Trust Co. v. First Guar. Title & Escrow of Florida, Inc., 684 So. 2d 219 (Fla. 3d DCA 1996).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1996 Fla. App. LEXIS 12220, 1996 WL 667941

...Court. 2 As to that portion of the order which discharged the receiver, we decline to reinstate the receiver in the absence of a factual determination of whether the application for the receiver was appropriately made in the court below pursuant to section 47.031....

...nstrued to preclude the appellees from seeking to otherwise dissolve the injunction on the merits in the court below if the situation so warrants. We, of course, express no opinion at this time on the legal propriety of the entry of the injunction. .Section 47.031 reads: When an application is made for a receiver of property and it is located in more than one judicial circuit, the court appointing the receiver has jurisdiction over the entire property for the purposes of that action but the appl...

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