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2017 Delaware Code
Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
CHAPTER 17. ABSENTEES; PRESUMED DECEDENTS
§ 1705. Search for absentee.
Universal Citation: 12 DE Code § 1705 (2017)
The Court of Chancery, on its own motion or upon the application of any party in interest, may appoint a master, investigator or appropriate agency to search for the presumed decedent in any manner which the Court shall deem appropriate, and the expenses of such search shall be paid out of the property of the absentee.
59 Del. Laws, c. 384, ยง 1.;
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