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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 48
PROCESS AND SERVICE OF PROCESS
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F.S. 48.051
48.051 Service on state prisoners.Process against a state prisoner shall be served on the prisoner.
History.s. 30, ch. 3883, 1889; RS 3043; GS 4124; RGS 6243; CGL 8580; s. 1, ch. 21992, 1943; s. 1, ch. 25041, 1949; s. 44, ch. 57-121; s. 4, ch. 67-254; ss. 19, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 13, ch. 71-355.
Note.Former s. 47.26.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 48.051
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 48.051.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

In AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 966 So. 2d 943 (Fla. 2007)

. . . 48.031 (service of process generally), 48.041 (service on minors), 48.042 (service on incompetents), 48.051 . . .

AMENDMENTS TO THE FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE TWO YEAR CYCLE, 858 So. 2d 1013 (Fla. 2003)

. . . 48.031 (service of process generally), 48.041 (service on minors), 48.042 (service on incompetents), 48.051 . . .

CARTER, v. LIL JOE RECORDS, INC., 829 So. 2d 953 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2002)

. . . Section 48.051, Florida Statutes (2000), states that “[process against a state prisoner shall be served . . . section 48.194(1), Florida Statutes (2000), the process server was required to comply with section 48.051 . . . Section 48.051 does not contemplate a form of substituted service. . . . Based upon the plain meaning of section 48.051 and our practice of strictly construing statutes governing . . . concurring)(concluding that the decision should have been controlled by the plain meaning of section 48.051 . . .

R. SHURMAN, v. ATLANTIC MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CORPORATION,, 795 So. 2d 952 (Fla. 2001)

. . . I conclude that this decision should be controlled by the plain meaning of section 48.051, Florida Statutes . . . Section 48.051, Florida Statutes (1997), provides that “[pjrocess against a state prisoner shall be served . . .

AMENDMENTS TO THE FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 773 So. 2d 1098 (Fla. 2000)

. . . 48.081 (service of process generally), 48.041 (service on minors), 48.042 (service on incompetents), 48.051 . . .

SHURMAN, v. ATLANTIC MORTGAGE INVESTMENT,, 740 So. 2d 1221 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999)

. . . . § 48.051, Fla. Stat. See also, Trawick, Florida Practice and Procedure, §§ 8-10. . . . .

In AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 682 So. 2d 105 (Fla. 1996)

. . . 48.031 (service of process generally), 48.041 (service on minors), 48.042 (service on incompetents), 48.051 . . .

BOLENDER, a k a v. K. SINGLETARY,, 16 F.3d 1547 (11th Cir. 1994)

. . . 1979), provides that witness subpoenas in criminal cases shall run throughout the state, and section 48.051 . . .

In AMENDMENTS TO THE FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 604 So. 2d 1110 (Fla. 1992)

. . . (service of process generally), §-48.041 (service on minors), §-48.042 (service on incompetents), §-48.051 . . .

In AMENDMENTS TO RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 536 So. 2d 974 (Fla. 1988)

. . . (service of process generally), § 48.041 (service on minors), § 48.042 (service on incompetents), § 48.051 . . .

BOLENDER, v. STATE, 422 So. 2d 833 (Fla. 1982)

. . . 1979), provides that witness subpoenas in criminal cases shall run throughout the state, and section 48.051 . . .