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Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 76
ATTACHMENT
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76.12 Attachment bond.No attachment shall issue until the person applying for it, the person’s agent or attorney, makes a bond with surety to be approved by the clerk payable to defendant in at least double the debt demanded conditioned to pay all costs and damages which defendant sustains in consequence of plaintiff’s improperly suing out the attachment. In foreclosure of a mortgage on personal property if the motion states that the property or part of it has been disposed of without the consent of the party holding the mortgage and that plaintiff does not know who has the property or part of it, the bond shall be made payable to the state for the use and benefit of all parties interested, conditioned to pay all costs and damages which are sustained in consequence of plaintiff’s improperly suing out the attachment. Any party aggrieved may sue on the bond but the state is not liable for any costs, damages, or expenses that are incurred. Any bond in attachment is not void as against the obligors, nor are they discharged therefrom on account of any informality, although the attachment is dissolved because of the informality.
History.s. 10, Feb. 15, 1834; RS 1646; GS 2110; RGS 3411; s. 2, ch. 8477, 1921; CGL 5264; s. 26, ch. 67-254; s. 375, ch. 95-147.

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Cases Citing Statute 76.12

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Future Tech Int'l, Inc. v. Tae Il Media, Ltd., 944 F. Supp. 1538 (S.D. Fla. 1996).

Cited 26 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15101, 1996 WL 582422

...3d Dist.Ct.App. 1987). Tae Il Media has not adequately established its compliance with several procedural thresholds to relief. For example, it has not demonstrated that it has supplied a bond in an amount equal to twice the debt, as required by Fla.Stat. ง 76.12....
...See Frio Ice, S.A. v. SunFruit, Inc., 724 F.Supp. 1373, 1379-80 (S.D.Fla.1989), rev'd on other grounds, 918 F.2d 154 (11th Cir.1990) (denying request for prejudgment attachment in part because the movant failed to prove compliance with the bond requirement of section 76.12)....
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Frio Ice, SA v. SunFruit, 724 F. Supp. 1373 (S.D. Fla. 1989).

Cited 17 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 1989 WL 134940

...ural due process. [10] For example, this court cannot issue a writ of attachment until plaintiff *1380 posts a bond at least double to the amount demanded that is conditioned to pay defendant's costs and damages if attachment was improper. Fla.Stat. § 76.12 (1987)....
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Gen. Elec. Co. v. Chuly Int'l, LLC, 118 So. 3d 325 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013).

Cited 10 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2013 WL 4007280, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 12334

...Chuly did not present sufficient evidence to rebut the initial presumption of fraudulent transfer. Further, GE asserted at the hearing that it would provide a bond in the amount of $3,200,000.00, more than twice the amount of the debt sought against Chuly. See § 76.12, Fla....
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Papadakos v. Spooner, 186 So. 2d 786 (Fla. 3d DCA 1966).

Cited 6 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...[4] The contract provided that the attorney would receive a reasonable compensation, the amount of which was to be fixed by the client. The fee had not been refused; in fact, the client had set a fee, but the attorney thought that it was not enough. [5] Fla. Stat. 1963, § 76.12, F.S.A....
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Leight v. Berkman, 483 So. 2d 476 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986).

Cited 6 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 11 Fla. L. Weekly 423

...NOTES [1] Attachment, as authorized by Section 76.01, et. seq., Fla. Stat. (1983), provides the obvious remedy for the potential harm the plaintiffs allegedly fear. That procedure, however, involves a set of statutory burdens, including posting a bond for at least twice the claimed debt, § 76.12, which the plaintiffs have not satisfied.
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Florida Transp. Co. v. Dixie Sightseeing Tours, Inc., 139 So. 2d 175 (Fla. 3d DCA 1962).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...* * *" [4] Norman Babel Mortgage Co. v. Golden Heights Land Company, Fla.App. 1960, 117 So.2d 205; Bondy v. Royal Indemnity Co., 134 Fla. 776, 184 So. 241; Gonzales v. DeFuniak Havana Tobacco Co., 41 Fla. 471, 26 So. 1012; Steen v. Ross, (1886) 22 Fla. 480. [5] § 76.12, Fla....
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In re Collins, 600 B.R. 108 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 2019).

Cited 1 times | Published | United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida

...ent the party ultimately expects to recover."); 13 Fla. Jur 2d Creditors' Rights § 58 ("[Attachment] authorizes a seizure of the defendant's property at the commencement of suit before there has been a judicial determination as to the liability."). § 76.12, Fla. Stat. (2018) (attachment bond); § 78.068(3), Fla. Stat. (2018) (replevin bond); § 77.031(3), Fla. Stat. (2018) (garnishment bond). § 76.12, Fla....
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In re Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, 211 So. 2d 174 (Fla. 1968).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1968 Fla. LEXIS 2207

different from the foregoing condition. See Section 76.12, Florida Statutes. *193(b) Costs * * * pay all
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Jetborne Int'l, Inc. v. Bankatlantic, 564 So. 2d 610 (Fla. 5th DCA 1990).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 1990 Fla. App. LEXIS 5674, 1990 WL 107824

...RIAM. Affirmed. See Harrison v. McCleod, 141 Fla. 804 , 194 So. 247 (Fla.1940); Rosen v. Levy, 109 Fla. 523 , 148 So. 393 (Fla. 1933); Fine v. Fine, 400 So.2d 1254 (Fla. 5th DCA 1981); § 678.313(1)(h), Fla.Stat. (1989); § 679.504 Fla.Stat. (1989); § 76.12, Fla.Stat....
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Papadopoulos v. SIDI, 547 F. Supp. 2d 1262 (S.D. Fla. 2008).

Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32658, 2008 WL 1803768

...These statutes include provisions, too numerous to summarize here, which provide a variety of limitations and protections during the collection process. For example, Florida Statute section 76.04 limits the circumstances under which a creditor may attach a debtor's property and section 76.12 requires that a writ of attachment not issue "until the person applying for it ......
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Norman Babel Mortg. Co. v. Golden Heights Land Co., 117 So. 2d 205 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1960).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

...• The judgment is affirmed in part and reversed in part; .and the cause is remanded for modification of the judgment in the respect pointed out above in discussing appellants’ point No. 3, and upon being so modified and amended the decree will stand affirmed. It is so ordered. HORTON, C. J., and PEARSON, J., concur. . Section 76.12, Ma.Stat., F.S.A., requires an attachment bond, “conditioned to pay all costs and damages which the defendant may sustain in consequence of the plaintiff’s improperly suing out said attachment, * * *.”

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