Any provision in a contract fixing the period of time within which an action arising out of the contract may be begun at a time less than that provided by the applicable statute of limitations is void.
Fla. Stat. § 95.03
Contracts shortening time
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Maxcess, Inc. v. Lucent Technologies, Inc. (2005)
Most recently applied in Langley v. Mp Spring Lake, LLC. (May 2018)
History.--ss. 1, 2, ch. 6465, 1913; RGS 2931; CGL 4651; s. 2, ch. 74-382.
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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.