All powers of attorney for confessing or suffering judgment to pass by default or otherwise, and all general releases of error, heretofore made or to be made hereafter by any person whatsoever within or without this state, before such action brought, shall be absolutely null and void.
Fla. Stat. § 55.05
Judgments; power of attorney to confess invalid
Known as the Florida Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 55–55 (36 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Harold Vineberg and Peter Demet v. Brunswick Corporation (1968)
Most recently applied in Kallen v. Caniglia (In re Caniglia) (February 1982)
History.--s. 67, Nov. 23, 1828; RS 1178; GS 1606; RGS 2808; CGL 4495; s. 1, ch. 59-321; s. 9, ch. 67-254.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Online Sunshine (Florida Legislature). Reproduced from public-domain Florida statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.