Florida Statute 55.13 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 55
JUDGMENTS

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F.S. 55.13

55.13 Judgments; rights of sureties, etc.—Any person paying money as surety for the principal in any bond or note, which he or she has signed as surety, upon which judgment has been obtained, shall have the same right to control the said judgment and collect the same, with principal, interest and costs, as the plaintiff creditor would have had if the debt had not been paid. Such judgment, and execution thereon, shall have the same lien on property of the principal as though the surety were the original plaintiff.

History.—ss. 1, 2, ch. 765, 1855; RS 1177; GS 1605; RGS 2807; CGL 4494; s. 9, ch. 67-254; s. 295, ch. 95-147.

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Fallschase Development Corp. v. Blakey

696 So. 2d 833, 1997 WL 122723

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Mar 20, 1997 | Docket: 1326081

Cited 9 times | Published

874. The Virginia court refused to apply Code § 55-13.3, Virginia's codification of the rule against