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Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 47
VENUE
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47.101 Change of venue; application.
(1) If a party desires a change of venue he or she may move therefor stating the belief that he or she will not receive a fair trial in the court where the action is pending:
(a) Because the adverse party has an undue influence over the minds of the inhabitants of the county.
(b) Because movant is so odious to the inhabitants of the county that he or she could not receive a fair trial.
(2) Such motion shall be verified and filed not less than 10 days after the action is at issue unless good cause is shown for failure to so file. It shall set forth the facts on which the motion is based and be supported by affidavits of at least two reputable citizens of the county not of kin to the defendant or his or her attorney.
History.s. 37, Nov. 23, 1828; RS 1079; GS 1471; s. 10, ch. 7838; s. 2, ch. 7852, 1919; RGS 2670; CGL 4337; s. 3, ch. 67-254; s. 11, ch. 73-334; s. 267, ch. 95-147.
Note.Former s. 53.03.

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Cases Citing Statute 47.101

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Mgmt. Comput. v. Perry Const., 743 So. 2d 627 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999).

Cited 77 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1999 WL 973600

...See Hu v. Crockett, 426 So.2d 1275, 1281 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983); Stoppa v. Water Oak Management Corp., 584 So.2d 161, 163 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991). Likewise, the abuse of discretion standard applies if the trial court finds it necessary to change venue under section 47.101, Florida Statutes, to ensure the right to a fair trial....
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Florida Dep't of Child. & Families v. Sun-Sentinel, Inc., 865 So. 2d 1278 (Fla. 2004).

Cited 22 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 29 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 55, 2004 Fla. LEXIS 161, 2004 WL 212456

...(1), Fla. Stat. (2002). [4] We stress that our jurisdiction to review the decision below is not based on the intradistrict conflict between the decision below and the decision in Dimino. [5] Hubbard involved a request for change of venue pursuant to section 47.101(1)(b), Florida Statutes (1979), which provides that a party may move for a change of venue if that party believes that he or she will not receive a fair trial in the court where the action is pending because that party is so odious to the inhabitants of the county that he or she could not receive a fair trial....
...n objection to personal jurisdiction. We note, however, that a motion to change venue made subsequent to a timely interposed objection to personal jurisdiction, if not itself waived, would not waive the objection to personal jurisdiction. See, e.g., § 47.101, Fla....
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Gov't Employees Ins. Co. v. Burns, 672 So. 2d 834 (Fla. 3d DCA 1996).

Cited 18 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1996 WL 13990

...Clearly under this Court's precedent in Gross v. Franklin, 387 So.2d 1046 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980), it makes sense to conclude that a trial court's authority to transfer a case on grounds of forum non conveniens must be predicated upon a proper challenge. [4] By contrast, section 47.101, Florida Statutes, creates a right for a change of venue where a party believes he or she will not receive a fair trial....
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Hubbard v. Cazares, 413 So. 2d 1192 (Fla. 2d DCA 1981).

Cited 13 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...risdiction over her under the Florida long arm statute. The trial judge denied the motion and Hubbard appeals. We affirm. Subsequent to the filing of Hubbard's motion to quash and to dismiss, she and the Church each requested a change of venue under section 47.101(1)(b), Florida Statutes (1979)....
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Bingham v. Manson, 363 So. 2d 370 (Fla. 1st DCA 1978).

Cited 9 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...parties or witnesses or in the interest of justice to a court in another county "in which it might have been brought" under F.S. 47.011 or 47.051 is strengthened by the absence of any such limiting language in the general change of venue statute, F.S. 47.101....
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Tindall v. Smith, 601 So. 2d 627 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992).

Cited 7 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 1992 WL 143632

...umstances under which a change of venue is permissible. We recognize that all courts have the power to grant changes of venue. § 47.091, Fla. Stat. (1991). Chapter 47 contains the circumstances under which a court may grant a change of venue. See §§ 47.101, 47.121, 47.122, Fla....
...d not be disturbed absent a demonstration of a palpable abuse or grossly improvident exercise of discretion. Adams v. Knabb Turpentine Co., Inc., 435 So.2d 944 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983) (citing McMichael v. Harris, 127 Fla. 861, 174 So. 323 (1937)). Under section 47.101, a party may move for a change of venue when he believes he will not receive a fair trial in the court where the action is pending either because the adverse party has an undue influence over the inhabitants of the county or because the movant is so odious to the inhabitants of the county....
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Vance v. Minton, 444 So. 2d 1162 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

..., the remaining Flagler County co-defendants, the sheriff and a deputy, were entitled to a transfer to Flagler County. While the opinion is based in part on the possibility that the plaintiff could not receive a fair trial in Flagler County and that Section 47.101 Fla....
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Lake Worth Premium Fin. Co. v. Singletary, 493 So. 2d 1130 (Fla. 4th DCA 1986).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 11 Fla. L. Weekly 1986, 1986 Fla. App. LEXIS 9699

...ffice for its customary business, and none of the foreign corporate defendants has an agent or other representative in that county. Hampton also said plaintiffs presence here is no basis for venue. This is not the stuff of which a motion pursuant to section 47.101 or section 47.122, Florida Statutes (1983) is made, as the corporate appellees have urged....
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Iseminger v. Morris, 249 So. 2d 488 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1971).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1971 Fla. App. LEXIS 6381

County by the Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff. F.S. Section 47.101, F.S.A., provides for a change of venue if
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Juan Francisco Vega v. the State of Florida (Fla. 3d DCA 2025).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...(2024). 2 Venue is proper in Miami-Dade County because this is the county where Vega was last charged and convicted. See Fla. R. Civ. P. – S.V.P. 4.060 (Venue is proper “in the county where the respondent was last charged and convicted of a qualifying offense.”). Vega sought the change of venue under section 47.101 of the Florida Statutes. 2 court’s August 23, 2023 order finding no probable cause to end Vega’s civil commitment....
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Cruz ex rel. Cruz v. Florida Power & Light Co., 307 So. 2d 924 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1975 Fla. App. LEXIS 14686

defendant, for a change of venue pursuant to Fla.Stat. § 47.101. The order contains the following finding of fact:
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Church of Scientology of California, Inc. v. Cazares, 401 So. 2d 810 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1981).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1981 Fla. App. LEXIS 19055

SCHEB, Chief Judge. Gabriel and Margaret Cazares sued The Church of Scientology of California, Inc., and Mary Sue Hubbard in circuit court in Pinellas County. The Church and Hubbard each moved for a change of venue under section 47.101(l)(b), Florida Statutes (1979), on the ground that they could not receive a fair trial in Pinellas County because The Church was odious to the inhabitants of Pinellas County and the people associated Hubbard with The Church because she was the wife of its founder....

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