Person entitled to enforce instrument
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 673–673 (69 sections).
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case 125 So. 3d 320 - Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Morcom (2013)
Most recently applied in Helix Inv. Mgmt., LP v. Privilege Direct Corp. (March 2019)
History.--s. 2, ch. 92-82.
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.
The term “person entitled to enforce” an instrument means:
(1) The holder of the instrument;
(2) A nonholder in possession of the instrument who has the rights of a holder; or
(3) A person not in possession of the instrument who is entitled to enforce the instrument pursuant to s. 673.3091 or s. 673.4181(4).A person may be a person entitled to enforce the instrument even though the person is not the owner of the instrument or is in wrongful possession of the instrument.
Official source: Online Sunshine (Florida Legislature). Reproduced from public-domain Florida statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.