Delaware General Assembly

CHAPTER 677.

OF THE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

AN ACT to define certain duties of the Justices of the Peace.

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

SECTION 1. That from and after the first day of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, it shall be the duty of every Justice of the Peace upon entering judgment upon any cause of action arising from any promissory note, bank check or due bill, or other evidences of indebtedness under the hand of the debtor, to endorse on such cause of action the year, month and day of entering such judgment with a reference to the docket, showing the page of such docket, and the number of such judgment, and shall file such cause of action in his office, which cause of action shall be a part of the record.

SECTION 2. That from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, it shall be the duty of every Justice of the Peace upon entering judgment on an obligation by virtue of a warrant of attorney to endorse on such obligation the year, month and day of entering such judgment, with a reference to the docket, showing the page of such docket, and the number of such judgment, and shall file such obligation and warrant of attorney in his office which shall be a part of the record.

Passed at Dover, March 21, 1889.