The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)
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. . . . § 559.801(1)(a). . . .
. . . . §§ 559.801-815 (2008). (Doc. No. 26, filed Nov. 17, 2008.) . . .
. . . The trial court dismissed count I with prejudice saying first that: [Cjhapter 559.801 et seq. (2005), . . .
. . . . § 559.801(1)(a)(4). . . .
. . . Under Florida Statutes § 559.801, “Business opportunity” is defined as “the sale or lease of any products . . . purchaser is required to pay an initial fee or sum of money which exceeds $500 to the seller....” § 559.801 . . .
. . . The definition of “business opportunity” at issue here is found at § 559.801 and reads, in pertinent . . . Fla.Stat.Ann. § 559.801(l)(a) (West Supp. 1995) (emphasis added). . . . Burger King objects to the Magistrate’s Report and asserts that the Magistrate erred in reading § 559.801 . . . sale of the Burger King to Barnes falls under the definition of “business opportunity” provided in § 559.801 . . .
. . . Section 559.801(1) states, in pertinent part that a “ ‘[bjusiness opportunity’ means the sale of any . . . so long as those business opportunities to be sold are no more than five in number_” Fla.Stat.Ann. § 559.801 . . . Section 559.801(1), et seq. simply does not apply to this transaction. 2. . . .
. . . The trial court granted the motion because it found that section 559.801, Florida Statutes (1983) does . . . The sole issue in this case is the construction of section 559.801. . . . Section 559.801 defines a “business opportunity” as: (1) ... the sale or lease of any products, equipment . . . The legislative history of section 559.801 indicates that a remedy for fraud in various different kinds . . . Therefore, we construe section 559.801 as having its lettered subsections written in the disjunctive . . .