Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 153

WRITS OF POSSESSION

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 133 OF THE REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE, 1935, RELATING TO EXECUTIONS WITH REFERENCE TO WRITS OF POSSESSION.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That Section 46 of Article 7 of said Chapter 133 of the Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, being Code Section 4837. of said Code, be and the same is hereby amended by adding, at the end of 4837. Section 46 thereof, the following:

"And it is further provided, in the event of a judicial sale at law or equity under and by virtue of the foreclosure of any mortgage, or execution upon a mechanics lien, the purchaser at said judicial sale may have a writ of possession awarded against any person in possession of the real estate so sold, provided the rights of such person in possession arose posterior to the date of the mortgage, or the effective date of the mechanics lien."

Approved May 4, 1939.

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