Comparison Chart (Federal vs Florida)
| # | Title | Federal | Florida |
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| 801 | Actions in Rem and Quasi in Rem; General Provisions | ✓ | |
| 802 | Actions Relating to Unincorporated Associations | ✓ | |
| 803 | Amended and Supplemental Pleadings | ✓ | ✓ |
| 804 | Applicability of the Rules in General; Removed Actions | ✓ | |
| 805 | Attaching Copy of Cause of Action and Exhibits | | ✓ |
| 806 | Choice of Forum | | ✓ |
| 807 | Class Actions | ✓ | ✓ |
| 808 | Commencing an Action | ✓ | ✓ |
| 809 | Completion of Mediation | | ✓ |
| 810 | Complex Litigation | | ✓ |
| 811 | Computing and Extending Time; Time for Motion Papers | ✓ | ✓ |
| 812 | Condemning Real or Personal Property | ✓ | |
| 813 | Conducting Business; Clerk's Authority; Notice of an Order or Judgment | ✓ | |
| 814 | Consolidation; Separate Trials | ✓ | ✓ |
| 815 | Constitutional Challenge to a Statute - Notice, Certification, and Intervention | ✓ | ✓ |
| 816 | Continuances | | ✓ |
| 817 | Counterclaim and Crossclaim | ✓ | ✓ |
| 818 | County Court Actions | | ✓ |
| 819 | Declaratory Judgment | ✓ | ✓ |
| 820 | Default; Default Judgment | ✓ | ✓ |
| 821 | Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing | ✓ | ✓ |
| 822 | Deposit into Court | ✓ | ✓ |
| 823 | Depositions by Oral Examination | ✓ | ✓ |
| 824 | Depositions by Written Questions | ✓ | ✓ |
| 825 | Depositions of Expert Witnesses | | ✓ |
| 826 | Depositions to Perpetuate Testimony | ✓ | ✓ |
| 827 | Derivative Actions | ✓ | |
| 828 | Determining Foreign Law | ✓ | |
| 829 | Disclosure Statement | ✓ | |
| 830 | Discovery in Aid of Execution | | ✓ |
| 831 | Dismissal of Actions | ✓ | ✓ |
| 832 | Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery | ✓ | ✓ |
| 833 | Effective Dates | ✓ | |
| 834 | Enforcing a Judgment for a Specific Act | ✓ | ✓ |
| 835 | Enforcing Relief for or Against a Nonparty | ✓ | ✓ |
| 836 | Entering Judgment | ✓ | |
| 837 | Evidence | | ✓ |
| 838 | Exclusions From Arbitration | | ✓ |
| 839 | Execution | ✓ | ✓ |
| 840 | Extraordinary Remedies | | ✓ |
| 841 | Failure to Make Disclosures or to Cooperate in Discovery; Sanctions | ✓ | ✓ |
| 842 | Final Disposition Form | | ✓ |
| 843 | Findings and Conclusions by the Court; Judgment on Partial Findings | ✓ | |
| 844 | Forfeiture Actions in Rem | ✓ | |
| 845 | Form of Pleadings | ✓ | ✓ |
| 846 | Forms | | ✓ |
| 847 | General Magistrates for Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Matters | | ✓ |
| 848 | General Rules of Pleading | ✓ | ✓ |
| 849 | Harmless Error | ✓ | |
| 850 | Hearing Motions; Submission on Briefs | ✓ | |
| 851 | Hearing Procedures for Non-Binding Arbitration | | ✓ |
| 852 | Homeowners' Associations and Condominium Associations | | ✓ |
| 853 | In Personam Actions: Attachment and Garnishment | ✓ | |
| 854 | In Rem Actions: Special Provisions | ✓ | |
| 855 | Inadvertent Disclosure of Privileged Materials | | ✓ |
| 856 | Indicative Ruling on a Motion for Relief that is Barred by a Pending Appeal | ✓ | |
| 857 | Injunctions and Restraining Orders | ✓ | ✓ |
| 858 | Instructions to the Jury; Objections; Preserving a Claim of Error | ✓ | ✓ |
| 859 | Interpleader | ✓ | ✓ |
| 860 | Interrogatories to Parties | ✓ | ✓ |
| 861 | Intervention | ✓ | ✓ |
| 862 | Joinder of Claims | ✓ | ✓ |
| 863 | Judge's Inability to Proceed | ✓ | |
| 864 | Judgment as a Matter of Law in a Jury Trial; Related Motions for a New Trial; Conditional Ruling | ✓ | |
| 865 | Judgment; Costs | ✓ | |
| 866 | Jurisdiction and Venue Unaffected | ✓ | |
| 867 | Juror Notebooks | | ✓ |
| 868 | Limitation of Liability | ✓ | |
| 869 | Magistrate Judges: Pretrial Order | ✓ | ✓ |
| 870 | Magistrate Judges: Trial by Consent; Appeal | ✓ | ✓ |
| 871 | Masters | ✓ | |
| 872 | Mediation Procedures | | ✓ |
| 873 | Mediation Rules | | ✓ |
| 874 | Medical Malpractice Presuit Screening Rule | | ✓ |
| 875 | Misjoinder and Nonjoinder of Parties | ✓ | ✓ |
| 876 | Mobile Homeowners' Associations | | ✓ |
| 877 | Motion for a Directed Verdict | | ✓ |
| 878 | Motions | | ✓ |
| 879 | Motions for Costs and Attorneys' Fees | | ✓ |
| 880 | New Trial; Altering or Amending a Judgment | ✓ | ✓ |
| 881 | Nonverification of Pleadings | | ✓ |
| 882 | Number of Jurors; Verdict; Polling | ✓ | |
| 883 | Objecting to a Ruling or Order | ✓ | |
| 884 | Offer of Judgment | ✓ | ✓ |
| 885 | One Form of Action | ✓ | ✓ |
| 886 | Permissive Joinder of Parties | ✓ | |
| 887 | Persons Before Whom Depositions May Be Taken | ✓ | ✓ |
| 888 | Physical and Mental Examinations | ✓ | ✓ |
| 889 | Plaintiff and Defendant; Capacity; Public Officers | ✓ | ✓ |
| 890 | Pleading Mortgage Foreclosures | | ✓ |
| 891 | Pleading Special Matters | ✓ | ✓ |
| 892 | Pleadings Allowed; Form of Motions and Other Papers | ✓ | ✓ |
| 893 | Possessory, Petitory, and Partition Actions | ✓ | |
| 894 | Pretrial Conferences; Scheduling; Management | ✓ | ✓ |
| 895 | Privacy and Court records | | ✓ |
| 896 | Privacy Protection for Filings Made with the Court | ✓ | |
| 897 | Proceedings Against a Security Provider | ✓ | |
| 898 | Proceedings Against Surety on Judicial Bonds | | ✓ |
| 899 | Producing Documents; Electronically Stored Information, and Tangible Things, or Entering onto Land, for Inspection and Other Purposes | ✓ | ✓ |
| 900 | Production of Documents and Things Without Deposition | | ✓ |
| 901 | Proving an Official Record | ✓ | |
| 902 | Questions by Jurors | | ✓ |
| 903 | Receivers | ✓ | ✓ |
| 904 | Records Kept by the Clerk | ✓ | |
| 905 | Relief from a Judgment or Order | ✓ | ✓ |
| 906 | Remittitur and Additur | | ✓ |
| 907 | Requests for Admission | ✓ | ✓ |
| 908 | Required Joinder of Parties | ✓ | ✓ |
| 909 | Right to a Jury Trial; Demand | ✓ | ✓ |
| 910 | Rules by District Courts; Judge's Directives | ✓ | |
| 911 | Rules Common to Mediation and Arbitration | | ✓ |
| 912 | Scheduling Cases for Trial | ✓ | ✓ |
| 913 | Scope and Purpose | ✓ | ✓ |
| 914 | Scope of Rules | ✓ | |
| 915 | Seizing a Person or Property | ✓ | ✓ |
| 916 | Selecting Jurors | ✓ | ✓ |
| 917 | Selection and Compensation of Arbitration | | ✓ |
| 918 | Service and Filing of Pleadings, Orders, and Documents | | ✓ |
| 919 | Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers | ✓ | ✓ |
| 920 | Serving Other Process | ✓ | ✓ |
| 921 | Sham Pleadings | | ✓ |
| 922 | Signing Pleadings, Motions, and Other Papers; Representations to the Court; Sanctions | ✓ | |
| 923 | Special Verdict; General Verdict and Questions | ✓ | |
| 924 | Stay of Proceedings to Enforce a Judgment | ✓ | |
| 925 | Stenographic Transcript as Evidence | ✓ | |
| 926 | Stipulations About Discovery Procedure | ✓ | ✓ |
| 927 | Subpoena | ✓ | ✓ |
| 928 | Substitution of Parties | ✓ | ✓ |
| 929 | Summary Judgment | ✓ | ✓ |
| 930 | Summons | ✓ | ✓ |
| 931 | Taking Testimony | ✓ | ✓ |
| 932 | Third-Party Practice | ✓ | ✓ |
| 933 | Title | ✓ | ✓ |
| 934 | Transfers of Actions | | ✓ |
| 935 | Trial by Jury or by the Court | ✓ | ✓ |
| 936 | Using Depositions in Court Proceedings | ✓ | ✓ |
| 937 | Verdicts | | ✓ |
| 938 | View | | ✓ |
| 939 | Voluntary Binding Arbitration | | ✓ |
