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          render superfluous the second Schleier requirement for such                 
          torts, thereby contradicting the Supreme Court’s characterization           
          of these two requirements as “independent”.  Id.                            
               Petitioners’ argument is plainly incorrect, however,                   
          proceeding as it does from a faulty premise that a tort-based               
          cause of action for fraudulent inducement protects only                     
          inherently personal rights, such as dignitary rights.  It is                
          hornbook law that torts generally encompass not just invasions of           
          personal dignitary rights but any “civil wrong, other than breach           
          of contract, for which the court will provide a remedy in the               
          form of an action for damages.”  Keeton et al., Prosser & Keeton            
          on the Law of Torts, sec. 1, at 2 (5th ed. 1984).  More                     
          particularly, although the tort of fraud might involve personal             
          injury, it generally involves “‘injury to property rather than to           
          person’”.  Food Fair, Inc. v. Anderson, 382 So. 2d 150, 154 (Fla.           
          Dist. Ct. App. 1980) (quoting 37 Am. Jur. 2d, Fraud and Deceit,             
          sec. 292 (1968)).  In a fraudulent inducement claim, “‘Generally,           
          the plaintiff’s loss is a purely economic loss’”.  HTP, Ltd. v.             
          Lineas Aereas Costarricenses, S.A., 685 So. 2d 1238, 1240 (Fla.             
          1996) (quoting with approval from the dissent in Woodson v.                 
          Martin, 663 So. 2d 1327, 1330 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1995), revd.             
          685 So. 2d 1240 (Fla. 1996)).                                               
               Consequently, contrary to petitioners’ argument and                    
          consistent with the two-prong test enunciated in Schleier, the              






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