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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH
Chapter 28
CLERKS OF THE CIRCUIT COURTS
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28.12 Clerk of the board of county commissioners.The clerk of the circuit court shall be clerk and accountant of the board of county commissioners. He or she shall keep the minutes and accounts and perform such other duties as provided by law. The clerk shall have custody of the seal and affix the same to any paper or instrument as required by law.
History.RS 1392; GS 1836; RGS 3081; CGL 4864; s. 3, ch. 70-134; s. 158, ch. 95-147.

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Cases Citing Statute 28.12

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McCarthy v. Florida Ladder Co., 295 So. 2d 707 (Fla. 2d DCA 1974).

Cited 18 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 15 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. (West) 375

...In the proper case, a defect can be inferred from the fact that a new product performs in such a manner as to preclude any other reasonable inference which would suggest that the product was not defective. [7] *710 As stated in 2 Harper and James, The Law of Torts, § 28.12, "For example, if injury can be traced to a break or collapse of a structure or a machine and the evidence also shows that the article was being put to its ordinary use in the ordinary way when it failed, it is reasonable to attribute its fa...
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Carlton Michael Gary v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison, 686 F.3d 1261 (11th Cir. 2012).

Cited 5 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2012 WL 2849619, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 14450

See Daniel's Georgia Criminal Trial Practice § 28-12 (2011-2012 ed.) (noting that "[t]he usual ground
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Brock v. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners, 21 So. 3d 844 (Fla. 2d DCA 2009).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2009 WL 3012705

...ion divesting the Clerk of the duties specified in this constitutional provision. As is the case with other state and county officers, the powers and duties of the clerk of the circuit court “shall be fixed by law.” Art. II, § 5(c), Fla. Const. Section 28.12, Florida Statutes (2007), provides that the “clerk of the circuit court shall be clerk and accountant of the board of county commissioners,” and that the Clerk “shall keep the minutes and accounts and perform such other duties as...
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Ainsworth v. KLI, Inc., 967 So. 2d 296 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 15196, 2007 WL 2781035

”) (citing 2 Harper and James, The Law of Torts § 28.12 (“if injury can be traced to a break or collapse
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Carlton Michael Gary v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison (11th Cir. 2012).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

See Daniel’s Georgia Criminal Trial Practice § 28-12 (2011–2012 ed.) (noting that “[t]he usual ground
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S. Wine & Spirits, Inc. v. Gonzalez, 429 So. 2d 1294 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1983).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 19059

...er its source, the employee at that instance has the option of undertaking a rescue that is in his employer’s interest or not undertaking it. If he undertakes it, he has embarked upon a service that is impliedly authorized by the employer. Larson, § 28.12 at 5-330....

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