(1) When a road, constructed by a county, a municipality, or the Department of Transportation, has been maintained or repaired continuously and uninterruptedly for 4 years by the county, municipality, or the Department of Transportation, jointly or severally, the road...
Month: March 2019
A cause of action accrues when the last element constituting the cause of action occurs. For the purposes of suit, the last element constituting a cause of action on an obligation or liability founded on a negotiable or nonnegotiable...
Substantial question of law While entertaining the second appeal it is to be kept in mind that the first appellate Court is the final Court of fact findings and pure findings of fact remain immune from challenge before the...
A “statement” is: 1. An oral or written assertion; or 2. Nonverbal conduct of a person if it is intended by the person as an assertion. A “declarant” is a person who makes a statement. “Hearsay” is a statement, other than...
When a witness uses a writing or other item to refresh memory while testifying, an adverse party is entitled to have such writing or other item produced at the hearing, to inspect it, to cross-examine the witness thereon, and...
“Professional journalist” means a person regularly engaged in collecting, photographing, recording, writing, editing, reporting, or publishing news, for gain or livelihood, who obtained the information sought while working as a salaried employee of, or independent contractor for, a newspaper,...
Title XLV TORTS Chapter 766 MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND RELATED MATTERS 766.101 Medical review committee, immunity from liability. 766.1015 Civil immunity for members of or consultants to certain boards, committees, or other entities. 766.1016 Patient safety data privilege. 766.102 Medical negligence; standards of recovery;...
The State of Florida [USA] INDEX TITLE XLVIII K-20 EDUCATION CODE CHAPTER 1000 K-20 GENERAL PROVISIONS PART I : GENERAL PROVISIONS (ss. 1000.01-1000.08) PART II : SYSTEMWIDE DEFINITIONS (s. 1000.21) PART III : EDUCATIONAL COMPACTS (ss. 1000.31-1000.40) PART I GENERAL PROVISIONS 1000.01 The...
“Facsimile seal” means the reproduction of the seal of the issuer or the official or official body by engraving, imprinting, stamping, or other means. “Facsimile signature” means the reproduction of a manual signature by engraving, imprinting, stamping, or other...
“Obligation” means a bond, certificate, note, or other evidence of indebtedness including, but not limited to, an agreement of a public entity to pay principal and any interest thereon, whether in the form of a contract to repay borrowed...
“Financial intermediary” means a bank, broker, clearing corporation, or other person, or the nominee of any of them, which intermediary in the ordinary course of its business maintains registered public obligation accounts for its customers, when so acting.
“Authorized officer” means any individual required or permitted, alone or with others, by any provision of law or by the issuing public entity to execute on behalf of the public entity a certificated registered public obligation or a writing...