Florida Statute 56.20 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 56
FINAL PROCESS

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56.20 Executions on judgments against third person claimants.—If the execution issued on the judgment is not paid, it shall be satisfied in the usual manner unless on demand of the officer holding it, the principal and surety in the claim bond deliver the property released under the claim bond to the officer and pay him or her the damages and costs awarded to the judgment creditor. If the property is returned to the officer but damages and costs are not paid, execution shall be enforced for the damages and costs. If part of the property is returned to the officer, the execution shall be enforced for the value, fixed as aforesaid, of that not returned. All property returned shall be sold under the original execution against the judgment debtor.

History.—RS 1201; GS 1630; RGS 2834; CGL 4521; s. 11, ch. 67-254; s. 305, ch. 95-147; s. 13, ch. 2016-33.

Note.—Former s. 55.43.

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United States v. Angelo Pepe & Thomas Miglionico, United States of Am. v. Albert Joseph Facchiano, Francis Santo, Paul Santo, 747 F.2d 632 (11th Cir. 1984).

Cited 196 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 17 Fed. R. Serv. 412, 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 16406

...Boylan, 620 F.2d 359, 361-62 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 833 , 101 S.Ct. 103 , 66 L.Ed.2d 38 (1980). In defining the elements of the RICO offenses here, the court tracked the language of Devitt & Black-mar, Federal Jury Practice and Instructions, § 56.20 (Supp.1983), and the Fifth Circuit Pattern Jury Instructions (Crim.), No....

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Meek v. Metro. Dade Cnty., Fla., 805 F. Supp. 958 (S.D. Fla. 1992).

Cited 4 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 1992 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11250, 1992 WL 174506

...[9] Partial summary judgment is merely a pretrial adjudication that certain issues shall be deemed established for the trial of the case. Lovejoy Electronics, Inc. v. O'Berto, 616 F.Supp. 1464, 1473 (N.D.Ill.1985) citing 6 J. Moore & J. Wicker, Moore's Federal Practice § 56.20 (2d ed....

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Antenor v. D & S FARMS, 866 F. Supp. 1389 (S.D. Fla. 1994).

Cited 2 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 1994 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15279, 1994 WL 592256

...[13] Partial summary judgment *1396 is merely a pretrial adjudication that certain issues shall be deemed established for the trial of the case. Lovejoy Electronics, Inc. v. O'Berto, 616 F.Supp. 1464, 1473 (N.D.Ill. 1985) citing 6 J. Moore & J. Wicker, Moore's Federal Practice § 56.20 (2d ed....

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