Delaware General Assembly

CHAPTER 279.

JUSTICES JURISDICTION IN CIVIL CASES OF DEBT.

AN ACT to Provide for a Deposit Before Bringing Suit in Certain Classes of Actions at Law.

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

Section 1. After the approval of this Act no civil action shall be brought before any Justice of the Peace, in this State, before the person bringing such action shall have first made a deposit of two dollars with the Justice of the Peace before whom he has brought said action, to be applied to the costs of such action. The said sum of two dollars shall be returned to the person depositing the same, if the money sued for shall be recovered.

Section 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved March 14, A. D. 1913.