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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 794
SEXUAL BATTERY
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F.S. 794.02
794.02 Common-law presumption relating to age abolished.The common-law rule “that a boy under 14 years of age is conclusively presumed to be incapable of committing the crime of rape” shall not be in force in this state.
History.s. 1, ch. 4964, 1901; GS 3222; RGS 5052; CGL 7154; s. 2, ch. 74-121.