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Fla. Stat. § 771.08 (2025)
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771.08 Construction of law.—This law shall be liberally construed to effectuate the objects and purposes thereof and the public policy of the state as hereby declared. This law shall supersede all laws and parts of laws, inconsistent with this law, to the extent of such inconsistency, but in all other respects shall be deemed supplemental to such laws and parts of laws. Nothing contained in this law shall be construed as a repeal of any of the provisions of the penal law or the code of criminal procedure or of any other law of this state relating to criminal or quasi-criminal actions or proceedings.
History.—ss. 8, 9, ch. 23138, 1945.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1950–1997 · leading case: Liappas v. Augoustis, 47 So. 2d 582 (Fla. 1950).
Liappas v. Augoustis, 47 So. 2d 582 (Fla. 1950). “" It is also provided, in Section 771.08, that the law "shall be liberally construed to effectuate the objects and purposes thereof and the public policy of the state as hereby declared.”
Hoffman v. Boyd, 698 So. 2d 346 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997). “Section 771.08 provides that Chapter 771 "shall be liberally construed to effectuate the objects and purposes thereof and the public policy of the state.”
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