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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VII
EVIDENCE
Chapter 92
WITNESSES, RECORDS, AND DOCUMENTS
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92.18 Certificate of state officer.The certificate of any state officer, under seal of office, as to any official act occurring in the course of the official business of the office in which the state officer presides, shall be prima facie evidence of such fact.
History.s. 1, ch. 3250, 1881; RS 1113; GS 1525; RGS 2725; CGL 4396; s. 510, ch. 95-147.

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Cases Citing Statute 92.18

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Turk v. State, 403 So. 2d 1077 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...to its identity and the mode of its preparation, and if it was made in the regular course of business... ." The witness's knowledge concerning the document was based totally on what he was told by the custodian, not on his own knowledge. Finally, regarding the state's reliance on Section 92.18 and the fact that the document contained the imprint of an original seal, we note that 92.18, Florida Statutes (1977) relates to the "certificate of any state officer, under his seal of office...." Here, there is no certificate; there is just the seal....
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Jones v. State, 196 So. 2d 503 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1967).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1967 Fla. App. LEXIS 5050

...The position of the appellant is that the trial court was in error in overruling his objections to those certificates, contending they did not certify to official acts occurring in the course of official business in the office of the Secretary of State, and therefore did not qualify under § 92.18 Fla.Stat., F.S.A....

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