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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 47
VENUE
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F.S. 47.061
47.061 Action on promissory notes.Actions on unsecured negotiable or nonnegotiable promissory notes shall be brought only in the county in which such notes were signed by the maker or one of the makers or in which the maker or one of the makers resides. When any such note was signed by the makers in more than one county, action may be brought thereon in any such county. This section shall be liberally construed in favor of the makers of such notes.
History.ss. 1, 2, ch. 17134, 1935; CGL 1936 Supp. 4223(1); s. 3, ch. 67-254; s. 11, ch. 73-334.
Note.Former s. 46.05.

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Amendments to 47.061


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 47.061
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 47.061.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

AHG TAX CREDIT FUND XVIII, LLC, v. BLITCHTON STATION, LTD., 200 So. 3d 117 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2016)

. . . litigation, they argued that Alachua County was the only proper venue for that action under sections 47.061 . . .

LOIACONI, v. GULF STREAM SEAFOOD, INC., 830 So. 2d 908 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2002)

. . . Section 47.061, Florida Statutes (2000), provides in pertinent part that an action on an unsecured promissory . . . promissory note in Sarasota County was sufficient to support venue in Sarasota County under section 47.061 . . .

GATOR OFFICE SUPPLY FURNITURE, INC. E. v. AMSOUTH BANK OF FLORIDA, N. A. f k a, 705 So. 2d 1039 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1998)

. . . Florida Statutes (1995), or the special venue statute regarding unsecured promissory notes, section 47.061 . . . Having established that the promissory note was secured, it would appear that section 47.061, Florida . . . The mortgagor (debtor) responded by moving to transfer venue pursuant to section 47.061, arguing that . . . changed the litigation into an action on a promissory note which involves the provisions of section 47.061 . . . See § 47.061, Fla. Stat. (1995). Reversed and remanded. DANAHY and QUINCE, JJ., concur. . . . .

MML DEVELOPMENT CORP. v. EAGLE NATIONAL BANK OF MIAMI,, 603 So. 2d 646 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1992)

. . . changed the litigation into an action on a promissory note which involves the provisions of section 47.061 . . .

E. POSEY, v. A. SHELDON,, 560 So. 2d 357 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1990)

. . . Section 47.061, Florida Statutes (1989) mandates that venue be in Okaloosa County. . . .

WORLD OMNI LEASING, INC. v. QUESINBERRY, 36 Fla. Supp. 2d 72 (Fla. Cir. Ct. 1989)

. . . . § 47.061 governs and sets forth proper venue requirements. Fla. . . . . § 47.061 states in pertinent part: Actions on unsecured negotiable or non-negotiable promissory notes . . .

FINE, v. CARNEY BANK OF BROWARD COUNTY, a, 508 So. 2d 558 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1987)

. . . Appellant is correct that section 47.061, Florida Statutes (1985), requires actions on unsecured negotiable . . . 409 So.2d 216 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982), an agreement between the parties as to venue, rather than section 47.061 . . .

J. SEARLE, v. FORTUNE FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, a, 480 So. 2d 187 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)

. . . Section 47.061, Florida Statutes (1983), provides that suits on unsecured promissory notes shall be brought . . .

OLMO, v. MURO,, 446 So. 2d 233 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1984)

. . . of Puerto Rico, was not entitled to have the action below dismissed for improper venue under Section 47.061 . . .

M. BAKER, M. D. v. HUEVEL, B. V., 420 So. 2d 335 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1982)

. . . Appellee concedes that venue in this case is governed by Section 47.061, Florida Statutes (1979), but . . . So.2d 43 (Fla. 4th DCA 1975), we likewise conclude that in the absence of any other proofs, Section 47.061 . . . See Trawick, Florida Practice and Procedures § 5 7. . § 47.061, Fla.Stat. (1979), provides: Actions on . . .

HALLMARK INDUSTRIES, INC. J. v. SCARBOROUGH CHEMICALS, INC., 409 So. 2d 216 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1982)

. . . suit should have been brought by the payee in the County where the note was signed pursuant to Section 47.061 . . . Such an admixture is more than sufficient to take this cause of action out of the purview of Section 47.061 . . .

S. SCHWARTZ, v. CAPITAL CITY FIRST NATIONAL BANK,, 365 So. 2d 181 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1978)

. . . Appellant first contends that the provisions of § 47.061, Florida Statutes, relating to venue in suits . . .

PERRY BUILDING SYSTEMS, INC. v. HAYES BATES, INC., 361 So. 2d 443 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1978)

. . . We are not here concerned with F.S. 47.122 relating to convenience of the parties, nor F.S. 47.061 relating . . .

CENTRAL BANK OF NORTH DADE, a v. PRIME LAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a, 335 So. 2d 581 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1976)

. . . Clifford, Fla.App.1971, 251 So.2d 40; and §§ 47.061, 47.122, and 47.163, Fla.Stat., 2 F.S.A. . . .

COUSINS MORTGAGE AND EQUITY INVESTMENTS, a v. FLORIDA FIRST NATIONAL BANK AT PENSACOLA,, 324 So. 2d 139 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1975)

. . . It is upon the foregoing facts that Cousins relies upon the following special venue statute, viz: “47.061 . . . The interpretation of Florida Statute 47.061, as urged by Cousins, smacks of establishing jurisdiction . . . was not executed in Florida, it is clear that for determining venue of this action Florida Statute 47.061 . . .

H. FOSTER, v. GRECO D., 320 So. 2d 43 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1975)

. . . unsecured promissory note so that the question of venue is controlled not by § 47.011, supra, but by § 47.061 . . .

GORMAN, v. ROYAL AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, a, 247 So. 2d 66 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1971)

. . . . § 47.061, F.S.A. . . .

ADLER, d b a A T v. COPA CORPORATION,, 212 So. 2d 337 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1968)

. . . . § 47.061, F.S.A. . . .