Florida Statute 79.07 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 79
HABEAS CORPUS

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79.07 Procurement of evidence.—When it is inconvenient to procure the personal attendance of a witness, the witness’s affidavit, taken upon reasonable notice to the adverse party, may be received in evidence.

History.—s. 7, Sept. 16, 1822; s. 7, ch. 3129, 1879; RS 1776; GS 2253; RGS 3576; CGL 5440; s. 29, ch. 67-254; s. 417, ch. 95-147.

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State Ex Rel. Scaldeferri v. Sandstrom, 285 So. 2d 409 (Fla. 1973).

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...Certiorari may also lie (as sub judice ) even though the matter has been treated below on habeas corpus. Habeas corpus proceedings are historically informal with affidavits allowed which will readily provide the necessary record for appellate review. Fla. Stat. § 79.07, F.S.A....

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