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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VII
EVIDENCE

Chapter 92
WITNESSES, RECORDS, AND DOCUMENTS

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92.31 Missing persons and persons imprisoned or interned in foreign countries; official reports.—An official written report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, that a person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, made by any officer or employee of the United States authorized by the act referred to in s. 92.30, or by any other law of the United States to make same, shall be received in any court, office, or other place in this state as evidence that such person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, as the case may be.

History.—s. 2, ch. 22866, 1945.

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State v. Holmes, 256 So. 2d 32 (Fla. 2d DCA 1971).

Cited 24 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

Judicial Notice of Foreign Law Act, Fla. Stat. § 92.031 (1967), F.S.A. requires every court in the state

Freimuth v. State, 272 So. 2d 473 (Fla. 1972).

Cited 17 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

more than twenty years ago enacted what is now Section 92.031, Florida Statutes, F.S.A. Mobley follows the

State-Wide Ins. Co. v. Flaks, 233 So. 2d 400 (Fla. 3d DCA 1970).

Cited 16 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

& Trust Co., Fla.App. 1964, 166 So.2d 717. Section 92.031 Fla. Stat., F.S.A., as an alternative to permitting

Lanigan v. Lanigan, 78 So. 2d 92 (Fla. 1955).

Cited 13 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

"common law and statutes of every state * * *", Section 92.031, Fla. Stat., F.S.A., we do not think that such

Miller v. Shulman, 122 So. 2d 589 (Fla. 3d DCA 1960).

Cited 12 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

the uniform judicial notice of foreign law act, § 92.031, Fla. Stat., F.S.A., apply since it does not act

Pac. Mills v. Hillman Garment, 87 So. 2d 599 (Fla. 1956).

Cited 8 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

judicial notice of the statute of a sister state. Section 92.031, Florida Statutes 1955, F.S.A., and Kingston

Chippas v. State, 180 So. 2d 355 (Fla. 3d DCA 1965).

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

the uniform judicial notice of foreign law act, § 92.031, Fla. Stat., F.S.A., apply since it does not act

Coyne v. Coyne, 325 So. 2d 407 (Fla. 3d DCA 1976).

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

Inc. v. Davis, Fla.App. 1969, 217 So.2d 890; § 92.031, Fla. Stat. Therefore, we are left to a situation

Astor Elec. Serv. v. Cabrera, 62 So. 2d 759 (Fla. 1953).

Cited 6 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

appellees that Chapter 25110, Acts of 1949, Section 92.031, F.S.A., governing notice of foreign statutes

Movielab, Inc. v. Davis, 217 So. 2d 890 (Fla. 3d DCA 1969).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

court erred in failing to follow same. We affirm. § 92.031, Fla. Stat., F.S.A., clearly indicates how a party

Holmes v. State, 273 So. 2d 753 (Fla. 1972).

Cited 4 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

obligatory judicial cognizance pursuant to Fla. Stat. § 92.031, F.S.A., and the laws of foreign countries may

Yessin v. Hanover Ins. Co., 202 So. 2d 206 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1967).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

Insurance Company, Fla.App. 1964, 162 So.2d 690; § 92.031(4), Fla.Stat., F.S.A.

Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp. v. Grasso, 364 So. 2d 26 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1978).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1978 Fla. App. LEXIS 16963

in this case, to-wit: whether, pursuant to Section 92.031, Florida Statutes (1977), a notice of reliance

Markham v. Gottsegen, 179 So. 2d 100 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1965).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1965 Fla. App. LEXIS 3716

Uniform Judicial Notice of Foreign Laws Act, section 92.031, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., as basis or predicate

Roy v. United Benefit Life Ins., 314 So. 2d 817 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1975 Fla. App. LEXIS 13639

foreign law applies to this case, see *818Fla.Stat. § 92.031, and Movielab, Inc. v. Davis, Fla.App.1969, 217

Freimuth v. State, 249 So. 2d 754 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1971).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1971 Fla. App. LEXIS 6440

Federal Register are to be judicially noticed, and § 92.031, Fla.Stats., F.S.A., permits our courts to take

Sonnenblick-Goldman of Miami Corp. v. Feldman, 266 So. 2d 48 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1972).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1972 Fla. App. LEXIS 6229

1967, 202 So.2d 597. We also note that Fla.Stat. § 92.031(4), F.S.A., requires reasonable notice of intention

Futterman v. Gerber, 109 So. 2d 575 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1959).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

take judicial notice of the Illinois Statute. See § 92.031, Fla.Stat., F.S.A., and Pacific Mills v. Hillman

Kelley v. Kelley, 350 So. 2d 11 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1977).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1977 Fla. App. LEXIS 16233

Uniform Judicial Notice of Foreign Law Act, Section 92.031, Florida Statutes (1975), Kingston v. Quimby

Hobbs v. Armco, Inc., 413 So. 2d 118 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

Section 90.202(2), Florida Statutes (1979), and Section 92.031, Florida Statutes (1975). [2] In footnote

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