Florida Statute 522.3 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXIII
REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS

Chapter 522
COMMISSION MERCHANTS

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F.S. 522.03

522.03 Liability of broker for loss by reason of delayed account sales; measure of damages.—Any person doing the business of fruit or produce broker or commission merchant, receiving pineapples in carlots or less, grown in this state for shipment or consignment, and who has not returned an account sales showing the cost and expenses charged against the returns, also the name and address of the purchaser, within 10 days of the sale, shall be liable in damages for any loss by reason of delayed account sales. The loss a shipper or consignor may sustain on cars of pineapples consigned to the said person over what she or he could have obtained in other markets or by other agencies shall be considered a proximate damage from the delayed account sales. The measure of damages shall be the difference between the prevailing price in the general market at time of receipt by consignee and the price received for such cars or less, of pineapples consigned to said broker or commission merchant between the time the account sales were due and the time received.

History.—s. 4, ch. 6235, 1911; RGS 4940; CGL 7027; s. 699, ch. 97-103.

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In Re Walker

356 B.R. 834, 20 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. B 53, 2006 Bankr. LEXIS 3112

United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Florida. | Filed: Jun 20, 2006 | Docket: 1808795

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P.192] (determining that pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 522(3)(2)(B), the law of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas