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Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 77
GARNISHMENT
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F.S. 77.02
77.02 Garnishment in tort actions.—Before judgment against a defendant no writ of garnishment shall issue in any action sounding in tort.
History.—s. 1, ch. 7352, 1917; RGS 3432; CGL 5285; s. 27, ch. 67-254.