Delaware General Assembly

CHAPTER 617.

OF CONVEYANCES.

AN ACT in relation to Sheriffs' making Deed for Lands and Tenements sold by them under execution process.

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

SECTION I. That whenever an execution for sale of lands and tenements shall be directed and delivered to a sheriff in office whose term shall expire before confirmation of the deed made by virtue of said writ, the deed of the sheriff making the sale to the purchaser shall be good and valid in law.

SECTION 2. That the provisions of this act shall apply to all sales which have heretofore occurred where no deed has been made as well as to sales hereafter to be made.

Passed at Dover, April 17, 1883.