Terms Used In Florida Statutes 673.4121

  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • 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
The issuer of a note or cashier’s check or other draft drawn on the drawer is obliged to pay the instrument:

(1) According to its terms at the time it was issued or, if not issued, at the time it first came into possession of a holder; or
(2) If the issuer signed an incomplete instrument, according to its terms when completed, to the extent stated in ss. 673.1151 and 673.4071.

The obligation is owed to a person entitled to enforce the instrument or to an indorser who paid the instrument under s. 673.4151.