Florida Statutes
Fla. Stat. § 671.103 (2025)
Supplementary general principles of law applicable.
✓ 2025 Florida Statutes — current through the 2025 Regular Session
Find cases:
SyfertCases citing this section
FL-LEGleg.state.fl.us
JustiaFla. Statutes
CornellLII Search
CasesGoogle Scholar
671.103 Supplementary general principles of law applicable.—Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this code, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, bankruptcy, or other validating or invalidating cause shall supplement its provisions.
Note.—s. 1-103, U.C.C.; supersedes ss. 678.52, 673.17, 614.20.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 33
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1971–2024 · leading case: Global Quest, LLC v. Horizon Yachts, Inc., 849 F.3d 1022 (11th Cir. 2017).
Global Quest, LLC v. Horizon Yachts, Inc., 849 F.3d 1022 (11th Cir. 2017). “”) (citing Fla. Stat. § 671.103 ). Defendants suggest two alternatives bases on which we might affirm the district court.”
State v. Fam. Bank of Hallandale, 623 So. 2d 474 (Fla. 1993). “§ 671.103, Fla. Stat. (1987). The conditional nature of warrants evidenced by numerous provisions of general law has remained similar in substance and clearly was not altered by the adoption of chapter 673.”
Weiner v. Am. Petrofina Mktg., Inc., 482 So. 2d 1362 (Fla. 1986). “…by the particular provisions of this code the principles of law and equity ... shall supplement its provisions." § 671.103, Fla. Stat. (1983).”
Burtman v. Technical Chemicals & Prod., 724 So. 2d 672 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999). “Section 671.103, Florida Statutes (1997) states the rule for reconciling code provisions with the common law: Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this code, the principles of law and equity .”
Tinker v. De Maria Porsche Audi, Inc., 459 So. 2d 487 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984). “Section 671.103, Florida Statutes (1983) states that the pre-Code law with regard to fraud supplements the U.”
Anderson v. Branch Banking & Trust Co. ex rel. BankAtlantic, LLC, 119 F. Supp. 3d 1328 (S.D. Fla. 2015). “Section 671.103, Florida Statutes, provides that common law principles of law and equity shall supplement the U.”
Est. of Yevgenyi Scherban v. Suntrust Bank, 223 F. Supp. 3d 71 (D.D.C. 2016). “” Fla. Stat. § 671.103 . With regard to wire transfers between banks, Florida has codified Article 4A of the Code, which covers fund transfers.”
AmSouth Bank v. Tice, 923 So. 2d 1060 (Ala. 2005). “[7] We look to § 671.103, Fla. Stat. Ann. (West 2004), for guidance on the relationship between the UCC and the common law.”
Williams v. Kloeppel, 537 So. 2d 1033 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988). “[2] § 671.103, Fla. Stat. (1985), provides in part: Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this code, the principles of law and equity, .”
Ketchian v. Concannon, 435 So. 2d 394 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983). “See also section 671.103, Florida Statutes (1981), which states: Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this code, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, estoppel, fraud,…”
Citizens & Peoples Nat. Bank v. Futch, 650 So. 2d 1008 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995). “See § 671.103, Fla. Stat. (1985) (absent an express provision to the contrary in the Uniform Commercial Code as adopted, principles of law and equity, including estoppel, apply).”
Transamerica Ins. Co. v. Barnett Bank of Marion Cnty., NA, 540 So. 2d 113 (Fla. 1989). “A security interest and equitable subrogation are not incompatible, indeed the surety contract here contained a provision that the assignments therein of a security agreement did not abrogate the surety's right to protect itself under other theories.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.