Florida Statute 76.13 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 76
ATTACHMENT

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76.13 Writ; form.—

(1) GENERALLY.—The writ of attachment shall command the sheriff to attach and take into custody so much of the lands, tenements, goods, and chattels of the party against whose property the writ is issued as is sufficient to satisfy the debt demanded with costs.

(2) IN AID OF SUITS TO FORECLOSE.—In actions to foreclose mortgages, the writ shall describe the property, and command the sheriff to take and hold such property or so much thereof as can be found sufficient to satisfy the debt to be foreclosed.

History.—s. 2, Feb. 15, 1834; RS 1648; GS 2112; RGS 3413; CGL 5266; s. 26, ch. 67-254; s. 3, ch. 83-255.

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Epica v. Swiss Bank Corp.(overseas) Sa, 507 So. 2d 1119 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987).

Cited 10 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 12 Fla. L. Weekly 617, 1987 Fla. App. LEXIS 8972

...We agree with EPICA's contention that the portion of the trial court's order which authorized the attachment of EPICA's financial and property records is erroneous. Attachment, a remedy designed to ensure the availability of assets to satisfy a possible final judgment, see § 76.13 Fla....

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Estudios, Proyectos e Inversiones de Centro Am., S.A. v. Swiss Bank Corp. (Overseas) S.A., 507 So. 2d 1119 (Fla. 4th DCA 1987).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 12 Fla. L. Weekly 617, 1987 Fla. App. LEXIS 6890

assets to satisfy a possible final judgment, see § 76.13 Fla.Stat. (1985), is only properly directed at

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