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2000 Florida Code
TITLE VI CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 83 Landlord And Tenant  
PART I NONRESIDENTIAL TENANCIES (ss. 83.001-83.251)
83.11   Distress for rent; complaint.

83.11  Distress for rent; complaint.--Any person to whom any rent or money for advances is due or the person's agent or attorney may file an action in the court in the county where the land lies having jurisdiction of the amount claimed, and the court shall have jurisdiction to order the relief provided in this part. The complaint shall be verified and shall allege the name and relationship of the defendant to the plaintiff, how the obligation for rent arose, the amount or quality and value of the rent due for such land, or the advances, and whether payable in money, an agricultural product, or any other thing of value.

History.--s. 2, ch. 3131, 1879; RS 1764; GS 2240; RGS 3559; CGL 5423; s. 34, ch. 67-254; s. 1, ch. 80-282; s. 431, ch. 95-147.

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