Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 7134 – Presumptions
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(a) The person in whose name the premises involved is recorded in the recorder of deeds office shall be presumed to be the owner thereof.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 7134
- Criminal nuisance: means any real property at which:
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Owner: means any person in whom is vested the ownership and title of property, and who is the owner of record. See Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 7103
- Person: means a human being who has been born and is alive, and, where appropriate, a public or private corporation, a trust, a firm, a joint stock company, a union, an unincorporated association, a partnership, a government or a governmental instrumentality. See Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 7103
- premises: includes any building, structure, erection, or any separate part or portion thereof, whether used as a residence, for commercial purposes or a house of worship, or the ground itself. See Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 7103
(b) Whenever there is evidence that a person was the manager, operator, supervisor or was in any other way in charge of the premises involved at the time of any conduct constituting the criminal nuisance is alleged to have been committed, such evidence shall be rebuttably presumptive that such person was an agent or employee of the owner, landlord or lessee of the premises.