772.12 – Drug Dealer Liability Act.
772.12 Drug Dealer Liability Act.— (1) This section may be cited as the “Hugh O’Connor Memorial Act.” (2) A person, including any governmental entity, has a cause of action for threefold the actual damages sustained and is entitled to minimum damages in the amount of $1,000 and reasonable attorney’s fees and court costs in the trial and appellate […]
770.05 – Limitation of Choice of Venue.
770.05 Limitation of choice of venue.—No person shall have more than one choice of venue for damages for libel or slander, invasion of privacy, or any other tort founded upon any single publication, exhibition, or utterance, such as any one edition of a newspaper, book, or magazine, any one presentation to an audience, any one broadcast […]
770.06 – Adverse Judgment in Any Jurisdiction a Bar to Additional Action.
770.06 Adverse judgment in any jurisdiction a bar to additional action.—A judgment in any jurisdiction for or against the plaintiff upon the substantive merits of any action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance as described in s. 770.05 shall bar any other action for damages by the same plaintiff against the […]
770.07 – Cause of Action, Time of Accrual.
770.07 Cause of action, time of accrual.—The cause of action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance, as described in s. 770.05, shall be deemed to have accrued at the time of the first publication or exhibition or utterance thereof in this state. History.—s. 3, ch. 67-52.
770.08 – Limitation on Recovery of Damages.
770.08 Limitation on recovery of damages.—No person shall have more than one choice of venue for damages for libel founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance, as described in s. 770.05, and upon his or her election in any one of his or her choices of venue, then the person shall be bound to […]
771.01 – Certain Tort Actions Abolished.
771.01 Certain tort actions abolished.—The rights of action heretofore existing to recover sums of money as damage for the alienation of affections, criminal conversation, seduction or breach of contract to marry are hereby abolished. History.—s. 1, ch. 23138, 1945.
771.04 – No Act Done in State to Give Cause of Action.
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, […]
771.05 – Unlawful to File Certain Causes of Action.
771.05 Unlawful to file certain causes of action.—It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, either as a party or attorney, or an agent or other person in behalf of either, to file or serve, cause to be filed or served, threaten to file or serve, or threaten to cause to be filed or served, any […]
771.06 – Validity of Certain Contracts.
771.06 Validity of certain contracts.—All contracts and instruments of every kind, name, nature or description, which may hereafter be executed within this state in payment, satisfaction, settlement or compromise of any claim or cause of action abolished or barred by this law, whether such claim or cause of action arose within or without this state, are […]
771.07 – Penalties.
771.07 Penalties.—Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. History.—s. 7, ch. 23138, 1945; s. 698, ch. 71-136.