Florida Statute 77.13 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 77
GARNISHMENT

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77.13 Execution on garnishee’s refusal to surrender property.—If garnishee will not surrender the personal property belonging to defendant, provided he or she has the power to do so, and which garnishee has admitted is in his or her possession, the court may order execution issued against garnishee for the unpaid amount of plaintiff’s judgment against defendant. The officer shall sell garnishee’s property as under other executions. Garnishee may release his or her property from the levy and sale by surrendering the property of defendant to the officer levying the execution at the time appointed for the sale of garnishee’s property so levied on, or at any time before the day of the sale and by paying the costs of the proceedings to sell up to the time of the surrender.

History.—s. 5, ch. 43, 1845; RS 1675; GS 2139; RGS 3441; CGL 5294; s. 27, ch. 67-254; s. 393, ch. 95-147.

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Cont'l Nat'l Bank v. Tavormina (In re Masvidal), 10 F.3d 761 (11th Cir. 1993).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 33977

on any of the garnishee’s property. Fla. Stat. § 77.13. The existence of these two remedies, the ability

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Greater Orlando Aviation Auth. v. Fed. Aviation Admin., 939 F.2d 954 (11th Cir. 1991).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

military service on the date the notice required by § 77.13(a) is filed.” . § 77.37 allows for discretionary

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