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2014 Delaware Code
Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
CHAPTER 11. ESCHEATS
Subchapter II Abandoned or Unclaimed Property
- § 1130. Definitions
- § 1131. Deposit to General Fund
- § 1132. [Reserved.]
- § 1140. Statutes of limitations not a bar
- § 1141. Escheator to maintain public record
- § 1142. Publication of abandoned property by State Escheator
- § 1143. Sale of personal property by State Escheator
- § 1144. Assumption of liability by the State; return of property erroneously paid to the State Escheator
- § 1145. Interest not to run after report of abandoned property
- § 1146. Claims for abandoned property paid to the State; procedure for determination of claims; appeals
- § 1147. Payment by State Escheator
- § 1148. Verification
- § 1149. Payment for publication
- § 1150. Designation of newspapers
- § 1151. Waiver of publication
- § 1152. Penalties and interest
- § 1153. Penalty for false oath
- § 1154. State Escheator to make regulations
- § 1155. Examination of records
- § 1156. Internal review procedure; Court of Chancery — Jurisdiction
- § 1157. Presumption of abandonment of personal property held by federal government
- § 1158. Limitations
- § 1159. Penalties
- § 1160. Abandoned property defined
- § 1161. Publication of list of abandoned property
- § 1162. Payment of abandoned property; presumption as to last known address
- § 1163. Report to accompany payment
- § 1170. Abandoned property defined
- § 1171. Annual report of abandoned property
- § 1172. Publication of list of abandoned property
- § 1173. Payment of abandoned property
- § 1174. Abandoned property held by the State Bank Commissioner after receivership
- § 1175. Payment of abandoned property after receivership
- § 1176. Reimbursement for instruments paid
- § 1177. Abandoned property reporting outreach program [Sunsets on July 1, 2015, by operation of 78 Del. Laws, c. 317, § 3]
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