Carlile v. GAME AND FRESH WATER FISH COM'N

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• explaining that statutes in derogation of common law must be strictly construed
• \Such a rule promotes orderly and uniform handling of state litigation and helps to minimize expenditure of public funds and manpower.\
• statute designed to change the common law must be clear and unequivocal because the presumption is that no change is intended otherwise
• statute in derogation of common law doctrine affording state sovereign immunity, must be strictly construed
• in construing a statute, inference and implication cannot be substituted for clear expression
• first citing Smith v. Williams, 35 So. 2d 844 (Fla. 1948); and then citing Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows v. State, 295 So. 2d 314 (Fla. 1st DCA 1974)

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