Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 2 - AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION

AN ACT AGREEING TO THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO SECTION 28 OF ARTICLE IV OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, RELATING TO WRIT OF ERROR.

WHEREAS, an Amendment to the Constitution of the State of Delaware was proposed in the Senate in the One Hundred and Fourth Session of the General Assembly, as follows:

"AN ACT proposing an Amendment to Section 28 of Article IV of the Constitution of the State of Delaware, relating to Writ , of Error.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of all the members elected to each House agreeing thereto):

Section 1. That Section 28 of Article IV of the Constitution of the State of Delaware be amended so as to read as follows:

Section 28. No writ of error shall be brought upon any judgment heretofore confessed, entered or rendered or upon any judgment hereafter to be confessed, entered or rendered, but within six months after the confessing, entering or rendering thereof; unless the person entitled to such writ be an infant, non compos mentis, or a prisoner, and then within six months exclusive of the time of such disability."

AND WHEREAS, the said proposed Amendment was agreed to by two-thirds of all the members elected to each House in the said One Hundred and Fourth Session of the General Assembly; and

WHEREAS, the said proposed Amendment was published by the Secretary of State three months before the next general election; to wit: the general election of 1934, in three newspapers in each County in the State of Delaware; Now Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of all the members elected to each House of the General Assembly agreeing thereto):

Section 1. That the said proposed Amendment be and it is hereby agreed to and adopted and that the same shall forthwith become and be a part of the Constitution.