Florida Statutes 680.211 – Warranties against interference and against infringement; lessee’s obligation against infringement
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Terms Used In Florida Statutes 680.211
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Finance lease: means a lease with respect to which:1. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
- Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (s. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
- Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this chapter and any other applicable rules of law. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
- Leasehold interest: means the interest of the lessor or the lessee under a lease contract. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
- Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
- Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
- person: includes individuals, children, firms, associations, joint adventures, partnerships, estates, trusts, business trusts, syndicates, fiduciaries, corporations, and all other groups or combinations. See Florida Statutes 1.01
- Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See Florida Statutes 680.1031
(1) There is in a lease contract a warranty that for the lease term no person holds a claim to or interest in the goods that arose from an act or omission of the lessor, other than a claim by way of infringement or the like, which will interfere with the lessee‘s enjoyment of its leasehold interest.(2) Except in a finance lease, there is in a lease contract by a lessor who is a merchant regularly dealing in goods of the kind a warranty that the goods are delivered free of the rightful claim of any person by way of infringement or the like.(3) A lessee who furnishes specifications to a lessor or a supplier shall hold the lessor and the supplier harmless against any claim by way of infringement or the like that arises out of compliance with the specifications.