2014 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedures
CHAPTER 87. COURT, COUNTY AND OTHER PUBLIC OFFICES
§ 8715. Distress proceedings

The fees in distress proceedings, for the services specified, shall be as listed below:

For making distress and giving notice $ .50

Summoning and qualifying freeholders, including cases where freeholders both value rent and appraise goods .50

All services by a freeholder .20

Advertising .40

And 2 percent upon the proceeds of sale, applied to rent.

Giving notice to landlord of sale of tenant's goods .20

And 2 cents a mile going and returning from the premises to the landlord's residence; this fee to be charged to the tenant, and first paid out of the sale of the tenant's goods.

For giving such notice the officer shall have but 1 fee, whatever be the number of writs in the officer's hands against the tenant. If there be executions or attachments, in the hands of several constables at the time of giving such notice, only the officer who made the first levy shall receive the fee under this provision.

Code 1852, § 2831; Code 1915, § 4884; Code 1935, § 5372; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 8716; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;