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Part I - General Provisions (Ss. 680.1011-680.1095)
680.1011 - Short title. - History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278.
680.1021 - Scope. - History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278.
680.1031 - Definitions and index of definitions. - (1) In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (a)...
680.1041 - Leases subject to other statutes. - (1) A lease, although subject to this chapter, is also...
680.1051 - Territorial application of chapter to goods covered by certificate of title. - History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278.
680.1061 - Limitation on power of parties to consumer lease to choose applicable law and judicial forum. - (1) If the law chosen by the parties to a...
680.1071 - Waiver or renunciation of claim or right after default. - History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278.
680.1081 - Unconscionability. - (1) If the court as a matter of law finds...
680.1091 - Option to accelerate at will. - (1) A term providing that one party or the party’s...
680.1095 - Application of ch. 98-11. - History.—s. 47, ch. 98-11.
Part II - Formation and Construction of Lease Contract (Ss. 680.201-680.221)
680.201 - Statute of frauds. - (1) A lease contract is not enforceable by way of...
680.202 - Final written expression: parol or extrinsic evidence. - (1) By course of dealing or usage of trade or...
680.203 - Seals inoperative. - History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278.
680.204 - Formation in general. - (1) A lease contract may be made in any manner...
680.205 - Firm offers. - History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278.
680.206 - Offer and acceptance in formation of lease contract. - (1) Unless otherwise unambiguously indicated by the language or circumstances,...
680.207 - Course of performance or practical construction. - (1) If a lease contract involves repeated occasions for performance...
680.208 - Modification, rescission, and waiver. - (1) An agreement modifying a lease contract needs no consideration...
680.209 - Lessee under finance lease as beneficiary of supply contract. - (1) The benefit of the supplier’s promises to the lessor...
680.21 - Express warranties. - (1) Express warranties by the lessor are created as follows:...
680.211 - Warranties against interference and against infringement; lessee’s obligation against infringement. - (1) There is in a lease contract a warranty that...
680.212 - Implied warranty of merchantability. - (1) Except in a finance lease, a warranty that the...
680.213 - Implied warranty of fitness for particular purpose. - History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278.
680.214 - Exclusion or modification of warranties. - (1) Words or conduct relevant to the creation of an...
680.215 - Cumulation and conflict of warranties express or implied. - (1) Exact or technical specifications displace an inconsistent sample or...
680.216 - Third-party beneficiaries of express and implied warranties. - History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278.
680.217 - Identification. - (1) When the lease contract is made if the lease...
680.218 - Insurance and proceeds. - (1) A lessee obtains an insurable interest when existing goods...
680.219 - Risk of loss. - (1) Except in the case of a finance lease, the...
680.22 - Effect of default on risk of loss. - (1) When risk of loss is to pass to the...
680.221 - Casualty to identified goods. - (1) If the loss is total, the lease contract is...
Part III - Effect of Lease Contract (Ss. 680.301-680.32)
680.301 - Enforceability of lease contract. - History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278.
680.302 - Title to and possession of goods. - History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278.
680.303 - Alienability of party’s interest under lease contract or of lessor’s residual interest in goods; delegation of performance; transfer of rights. - (1) As used in this section, “creation of a security...
680.304 - Subsequent lease of goods by lessor. - (1) Subject to s. 680.303, a subsequent lessee from a...
680.305 - Sale or sublease of goods by lessee. - (1) Subject to the provisions of s. 680.303, a buyer...
680.306 - Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law. - History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278; s. 710, ch. 97-102.
680.307 - Priority of liens arising by attachment or levy on, security interests in, and other claims to goods. - (1) Except as otherwise provided in s. 680.306, a creditor...
680.308 - Special rights of creditors. - (1) A creditor of a lessor in possession of goods...
680.309 - Lessor’s and lessee’s rights when goods become fixtures. - (1) In this section: (a) Goods are “fixtures” when they...
680.31 - Lessor’s and lessee’s rights when goods become accessions. - (1) Goods are “accessions” when they are installed in or...
680.32 - Priority subject to subordination. - History.—s. 32, ch. 98-11.
Part IV - Performance of Lease Contract: Repudiated, Substituted, and Excused (Ss. 680.401-680.407)
680.401 - Insecurity: adequate assurance of performance. - (1) A lease contract imposes an obligation on each party...
680.402 - Anticipatory repudiation. - (1) For a commercially reasonable time, await retraction of repudiation...
680.403 - Retraction of anticipatory repudiation. - (1) Until the repudiating party’s next performance is due, the...
680.404 - Substituted performance. - (1) If, without fault of the lessee, the lessor, and...
680.405 - Excused performance. - (1) Delay in delivery or nondelivery in whole or in...
680.406 - Procedure on excused performance. - (1) If the lessee receives notification of a material or...
680.407 - Irrevocable promises: finance leases. - (1) In the case of a finance lease that is...
Part V - Default (Ss. 680.501-680.532)
680.501 - Default: procedure. - (1) Whether the lessor or the lessee is in default...
680.502 - Notice after default. - History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278.
680.503 - Modification or impairment of rights and remedies. - (1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the lease...
680.504 - Liquidation of damages. - (1) Damages payable by either party for default or any...
680.505 - Cancellation and termination; effect of cancellation, termination, rescission, or fraud on rights and remedies. - (1) On cancellation of the lease contract, all obligations that...
680.506 - Statute of limitation. - (1) An action for default under a lease contract, including...
680.507 - Proof of market rent; time and place. - (1) Damages based on market rent (s. 680.519 or s....
680.508 - Lessee’s remedies. - (1) If a lessor fails to deliver the goods in...
680.509 - Lessee’s rights on improper delivery; rightful rejection. - (1) Subject to the provisions of s. 680.51 on default...
680.51 - Installment lease contracts: rejection and default. - (1) Under an installment lease contract, a lessee may reject...
680.511 - Merchant lessee’s duties as to rightfully rejected goods. - (1) Subject to any security interest of a lessee (s....
680.512 - Lessee’s duties as to rightfully rejected goods. - (1) Except as otherwise provided with respect to goods that...
680.513 - Cure by lessor of improper tender or delivery; replacement. - (1) If any tender or delivery by the lessor or...
680.514 - Waiver of lessee’s objections. - (1) In rejecting goods, a lessee’s failure to state a...
680.515 - Acceptance of goods. - (1) Acceptance of goods occurs after the lessee has had...
680.516 - Effect of acceptance of goods; notice of default; burden of establishing default after acceptance; notice of claim or litigation to person answerable over. - (1) A lessee must pay rent for any goods accepted...
680.517 - Revocation of acceptance of goods. - (1) A lessee may revoke acceptance of a lot or...
680.518 - Cover; substitute goods. - (1) After default by a lessor under the lease contract...
680.519 - Lessee’s damages for nondelivery, repudiation, default, or breach of warranty in regard to accepted goods. - (1) Except as otherwise provided with respect to damages liquidated...
680.52 - Lessee’s incidental and consequential damages. - (1) Incidental damages resulting from a lessor’s default include: (a)...
680.521 - Lessee’s right to specific performance or replevin. - (1) Specific performance may be decreed if the goods are...
680.522 - Lessee’s right to goods on lessor’s insolvency. - (1) Subject to subsection (2) and even though the goods...
680.523 - Lessor’s remedies. - (1) If a lessee wrongfully rejects or revokes acceptance of...
680.524 - Lessor’s right to identify goods to lease contract. - (1) After default by the lessee under the lease contract...
680.525 - Lessor’s right to possession of goods. - (1) If a lessor discovers the lessee to be insolvent,...
680.526 - Lessor’s stoppage of delivery in transit or otherwise. - (1) A lessor may stop delivery of goods in the...
680.527 - Lessor’s rights to dispose of goods. - (1) After a default by a lessee under the lease...
680.528 - Lessor’s damages for nonacceptance or repudiation. - (1) Except as otherwise provided with respect to damages liquidated...
680.529 - Lessor’s action for the rent. - (1) After default by the lessee under the lease contract...
680.53 - Lessor’s incidental damages. - History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278.
680.531 - Standing to sue third parties for injury to goods. - (1) If a third party so deals with goods that...
680.532 - Lessor’s rights to residual interest. - History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278; s. 46, ch. 98-11.