(a) No constable in the State shall levy upon or sell or offer to sell or to remove, by virtue of any writ or upon any claim or demand whatsoever, any goods and chattels when such goods and chattels have been placed in, and continue to be in, any storage warehouse. No such goods and chattels, so placed, shall hereafter be seized upon or sold, except by the sheriff of the county in which such goods and chattels are located, after such advertisement and under like conditions as are required by law in the case of goods and chattels seized and sold by the sheriff under execution process.

Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 4911

  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.

(b) For purposes of this section, a “storage warehouse” is defined as any facility designed for the commercial storage of goods or a self-service storage facility consisting of real property designed and used for the purposes of renting and leasing individual storage space to occupants who are to have access to such for the purpose of storing and removing personal property.

38 Del. Laws, c. 79, §§ ?1, 2; Code 1935, § ?4802; 10 Del. C. 1953, § ?4911; 79 Del. Laws, c. 281, § ?1; 82 Del. Laws, c. 204, § 1;