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Title VI CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 47 VENUE

47.061 Action on promissory notes.--Actions on unsecured negotiable or nonnegotiable promissory notes shall be brought only in the county in which such notes were signed by the maker or one of the makers or in which the maker or one of the makers resides. When any such note was signed by the makers in more than one county, action may be brought thereon in any such county. This section shall be liberally construed in favor of the makers of such notes.

History.--ss. 1, 2, ch. 17134, 1935; CGL 1936 Supp. 4223(1); s. 3, ch. 67-254; s. 11, ch. 73-334.

Note.--Former s. 46.05.

Last modified: November 21, 2006