Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 9556 – Duty of constable or sheriff upon receipt of execution; return of …
(a) A constable, or other officer, receiving an execution, shall, in a docket, set down the date of receiving it; and when several executions are delivered on the same day, the docket shall show the order in which they are received. The constable or other officer shall also endorse upon an execution, immediately on receiving it, the precise time the officer received delivery of the execution.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 9556
- Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
- 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
(b) The officer to whom an execution issued by a Justice of the Peace Court is delivered shall duly return it with a certificate of all the officer’s proceedings, and a statement of the officer’s fees, giving the items.
(c) If no levy is made, the reason shall be given.
(d) If the levy has been made, an inventory shall be returned, and shall state as whose property the goods and chattels were seized in execution.
(e) In case of a sale the list of the goods and chattels sold, with the amount thereof, shall be returned.
Code 1852, § ?2128; 14 Del. Laws, c. 85; Code 1915, § ?4029; Code 1935, § ?4515; 10 Del. C. 1953, § ?9563; 70 Del. Laws, c. 232, § ?11; 82 Del. Laws, c. 204, § 7;