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The 2025 Florida Statutes
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F.S. 828.02828.02 Definitions.—In this chapter, and in every law of the state relating to or in any way affecting animals, the word “animal” shall be held to include every living dumb creature; the words “torture,” “torment,” and “cruelty” shall be held to include every act, omission, or neglect whereby unnecessary or unjustifiable pain or suffering is caused, except when done in the interest of medical science, permitted, or allowed to continue when there is reasonable remedy or relief; and the words “owner” and “person” shall be held to include corporations, and the knowledge and acts of agents and employees of corporations in regard to animals transported, owned, employed by or in the custody of a corporation, shall be held to be the knowledge and act of such corporation.History.—s. 10, ch. 4971, 1901; GS 3156; RGS 4982; CGL 7071; s. 2, ch. 86-179.
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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:
Cases Citing Statute 828.02
Total Results: 8
976 So. 2d 1081, 2008 WL 596805
Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Mar 6, 2008 | Docket: 1679907
Cited 57 times | Published
cruel death].
Definition, if cruel death charged. § 828.02, Fla. Stat.
"Cruelty" ["Torture"] ["Torment"]
401 So. 2d 1110
Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jul 16, 1981 | Docket: 1686509
Cited 18 times | Published
Animal is defined as "every living dumb creature." § 828.02, Fla. Stat. (1979). This definition excludes human
310 So. 2d 42
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Mar 11, 1975 | Docket: 1682904
Cited 3 times | Published
that appellants' actions were in violation of F.S. 828.02 and F.S. 828.12. At the close of the plaintiff's
63 So. 2d 508, 1953 Fla. LEXIS 1129
Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Feb 27, 1953 | Docket: 1375859
Cited 3 times | Published
in connection with Section 828.12, F.S.A. is Section 828.02, F.S.A., which is as follows:
"In this chapter
1 So. 3d 328, 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 1957, 2009 WL 151099
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jan 23, 2009 | Docket: 60224842
Cited 2 times | Published
as well as “acts,” were equally proscribed. See § 828.02, Fla. Stat. (2007). The trial court then decided
143 So. 3d 893, 2014 WL 3361905
Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jul 10, 2014 | Docket: 400982
Published
Definition of “cruelty”, if cruel death charged. § 828.02, Fla. Stat. Only read definition for terms “Torture”
Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: May 6, 1994 | Docket: 3258995
Published
copartnership, association, or corporation.
3 Section 828.02, Fla. Stat. (1993). And see, Wilkerson v. State
Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Apr 23, 1990 | Docket: 3255202
Published
1979).
11 91 C.J.S. Unnecessarily 504.
12 Section 828.02, F.S.