State ex rel. Guste v. City of Baton Rouge

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• construing Florida’s constitutional provision that “[t]he right to trial by jury shall be secure to all, and remain inviolate” to include right to jury trial as it existed at common law when constitution became effective in 1845
• finding entireties estate in truck even though title held in names of a cattle rustler or his wife because 1979 amendments to section 319.22(2) providing use of disjunctive in title creates joint tenancy not retroactive
• Supreme Court specifically rejected the argument that codification of proceedings for government forfeiture of private property by a \new statute\ controlled the character of such a matter from the standpoint of the propriety of a jury trial

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