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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLV
TORTS
Chapter 771
ACTIONS FOR ALIENATION OF AFFECTIONS, CRIMINAL CONVERSATION, SEDUCTION, OR BREACH OF CONTRACT TO MARRY
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F.S. 771.04
771.04 No act done in state to give cause of action.No act hereafter done within this state shall operate to give rise, either within or without this state, to any of the rights of action abolished by this law. No contract to marry hereafter made or entered into in this state shall operate to give rise, either within or without this state, to any cause or right of action for the breach thereof.
History.s. 4, ch. 23138, 1945.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 771.04
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 771.04.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

HOFFMAN, v. Dr. W. BOYD,, 698 So. 2d 346 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)

. . . contracts attached to the complaint clearly fit within the legislative prohibition of sections 771.01 and 771.04 . . . Section 771.04 solely addresses contracts to marry: No contract to marry hereafter made or entered into . . .

WILDEY, v. A. SPRINGS,, 47 F.3d 1475 (7th Cir. 1995)

. . . . § 771.04 (1986). Illinois, too, outlawed the common law cause of action. . . .

WILDEY, v. A. SPRINGS, III,, 840 F. Supp. 1259 (N.D. Ill. 1994)

. . . . § 771.04. . . . Fla.Stat.Ann. § 771.04. . . . .

WRIGHT, v. B. WRIGHT,, 509 So. 2d 329 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1987)

. . . consideration of premarital sacrifices, the Duttenhofer court purported to reason by analogy from section 771.04 . . . Section 771.04 bars a cause of action where a prospective spouse abandons the marriage plan before consummation . . .

DUTTENHOFER, v. D. DUTTENHOFER,, 474 So. 2d 251 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)

. . . Florida’s “heart balm” legislation, see § 771.04, Fla.Stat. (1983), which abolished, inter alia, the . . . Before the enactment of Section 771.04, damages recoverable for breach of promise to marry included loss . . . for loss of future support, if brought as an independent action, would likely be outlawed by Section 771.04 . . . Section 771.04, Florida Statutes (1983), states: “No act hereafter done within this state shall operate . . .

TREMBLAY, v. L. CARTER, d b a, 390 So. 2d 816 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1980)

. . . . § 771.04, Fla.Stat. (1979). . . .

A. DE BOER v. DYKES, 178 F. Supp. 74 (W.D. Ark. 1959)

. . . In 1952 the average gross monthly income from cabin rentals was $771.04. . . .

TITLE GUARANTY TRUST CO. v. PUGET SOUND ENGINE WORKS, 163 F. 168 (9th Cir. 1908)

. . . Judgment was asked against the defendants and each of them in the sum of $771.04. . . .