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Florida Civil Practice And Procedure Code Section 47.071 - Venue - Jurisdiction over navigable waters.

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Title VI   CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 47   VENUE

47.071  Jurisdiction over navigable waters.--When the territorial jurisdiction of a court extends to one bank of any navigable water, such court has jurisdiction across such navigable water from shore to shore. If the territorial jurisdiction of different courts, whether of the same county or not, extends to the opposite bank of any navigable water, such courts have concurrent jurisdiction across said navigable water from shore to shore.

History.--RS 1002; GS 1387; RGS 2583; CGL 4223; s. 3, ch. 67-254.

Note.--Former s. 46.06.

Last modified: November 21, 2006