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The 2004 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 56
FINAL PROCESS
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Section 56.12, Florida Statutes 2004

56.12  Executions; levy, forthcoming bond.--If a defendant in execution wants to retake possession of any property levied on, he or she may do so by executing a bond with surety to be approved by the officer in favor of the plaintiff in a sum double the value of the property retaken as fixed by the officer holding the execution and conditioned that the property will be forthcoming on the day of sale stated in the bond.

History.--s. 3, Mar. 15, 1844; RS 1192; GS 1621; RGS 2825; CGL 4512; s. 11, ch. 67-254; s. 301, ch. 95-147.

Note.--Former s. 55.34.