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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 86
DECLARATORY JUDGMENTS
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F.S. 86.101
86.101 Construction of law.This chapter is declared to be substantive and remedial. Its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from insecurity and uncertainty with respect to rights, status, and other equitable or legal relations and is to be liberally administered and construed.
History.s. 11, ch. 21820, 1943; s. 38, ch. 67-254.
Note.Former s. 87.11.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 86.101
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 86.101.



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Cases Citing Statute 86.101

Total Results: 20

Lee Memorial Health System, d/b/a Lee Health v. Office of the Attorney General, Department of Legal Affairs, State of Florida

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-08-14

Snippet: judgment pursuant to sections 86.011, 86.021, and 86.101, Florida Statutes. The Attorney General argues

North Broward Hospital District, d/b/a Broward Health v. Office of the Attorney General, Department of Legal Affairs, State of Florida

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-08-14

Snippet: judgment pursuant to sections 86.011, 86.021, and 86.101, Florida Statutes. The Attorney General argues

Putnam County School Board v. Office of the Attorney General, Department of Legal Affairs, State of Florida

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-08-14

Snippet: judgment pursuant to sections 86.011, 86.021, and 86.101, Florida Statutes. The Attorney General argues

Sarasota County Public Hospital District, d/b/a Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System, Inc. v. Office of the Attorney General, Department of Legal Affairs, State of Florida

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-08-14

Snippet: judgment pursuant to sections 86.011, 86.021, and 86.101, Florida Statutes. The Attorney General argues

School Board of Miami-Dade County and Putnam County School Board v. Office of the Attorney General, Department of Legal Affairs, State of Florida

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-08-14

Snippet: judgment pursuant to sections 86.011, 86.021, and 86.101, Florida Statutes. The Attorney General argues

South Broward Hospital District, d/b/a Memorial Healthcare System v. Office of the Attorney General, Department of Legal Affairs, State of Florida

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-08-14

Snippet: judgment pursuant to sections 86.011, 86.021, and 86.101, Florida Statutes. The Attorney General argues

Halifax Hospital Medical Center v. Office of the Attorney General

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-08-14

Snippet: judgment pursuant to sections 86.011, 86.021, and 86.101, Florida Statutes. The Attorney General argues

FREDERIC GUTTENBERG v. SMITH & WESSON, CORP.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2023-01-04

Snippet: to be liberally administered and construed.” § 86.101, Fla. Stat. (2018). Declaratory relief affords

LINDA COMISAR and BERNARD COMISAR v. HERITAGE PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2022-08-10

Snippet: declaratory relief from courts as a matter of law. § 86.101, Fla. Stat. (2021). A party that is “in doubt about

Jonathan Huey Lawrence v. State of Florida

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2020-10-29

Snippet: States Supreme Court in Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86, 101 (1958), our state’s jurisprudence has in many

Harry Franklin Phillips v. State of Florida

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2020-05-21

Snippet: U.S. at 708 (citing Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86, 101 (1958) (plurality opinion)), the imposition of

Timothy Lee Hurst v. State of Florida

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2016-10-14

Citation: 202 So. 3d 40, 41 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 433, 2016 Fla. LEXIS 2305

Snippet: standards of decency.” Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86, 101, 78 S.Ct. 590, 2 L.Ed.2d 630 (1958) (plurality

Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. v. Burnette

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2015-10-30

Citation: 177 So. 3d 1032, 2015 WL 6594312

Snippet: Scanlan, 582 So.2d 1167, 1170 (Fla.1991); see § 86.101, Fla. Stat. “Although the declaratory judgment

Yacob v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2014-03-27

Citation: 136 So. 3d 539, 39 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 174, 2014 WL 1243782, 2014 Fla. LEXIS 1030

Snippet: maturing society.” See Troy v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86, 101, 78 S.Ct. 590, 2 L.Ed.2d 630 (1958) (plurality

Askari Abdullah Muhammad f/k/a Thomas Knight v. State of Florida

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2014-01-03

Citation: 132 So. 3d 176

Snippet: a maturing society,” Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86, 101 (1958), their mental illness should bar execution

Angelo's Aggregate Materials, Ltd. v. Pasco County

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2013-08-14

Citation: 118 So. 3d 971, 2013 WL 4081010, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 12643

Snippet: specifically calls for its liberal construction, § 86.101, Fla. Stat. (2011), and dictates that the availability

State Department of Environmental Protection v. Garcia

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2011-08-03

Citation: 99 So. 3d 539, 2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 12097, 2011 WL 3300540

Snippet: in nature and should be broadly construed. See § 86.101, Fla. Stat. (2009); Conley v. Morley Realty Corp

Serrano v. State

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2009-06-17

Citation: 15 So. 3d 629, 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 7694, 2009 WL 1677545

Snippet: (1980); see Edwards v. Arizona, 451 U.S. 477, 485-86, 101 S.Ct. 1880, 68 L.Ed.2d 378 (1981) (“The Fifth Amendment

Florida House of Representatives v. Crist

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2008-07-03

Citation: 990 So. 2d 1035, 33 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 437, 2008 Fla. LEXIS 1220, 2008 WL 2669767

Snippet: 1170 (Fla.1991) (emphasis supplied) (citing § 86.101, Fla. Stat. (1989)). For example, litigants have

Florida House of Representatives v. Crist

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2008-07-03

Citation: 999 So. 2d 601, 2008 WL 5642083

Snippet: 1170 (Fla. 1991) (emphasis supplied) (citing § 86.101, Fla. Stat. (1989)). For example, litigants have