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2020 Delaware Code
Title 25 - Property
Chapter 13. Fences
§ 1304 Maintenance of partition fences; liability for enclosure of another's lands.
Universal Citation: 25 DE Code § 1304. (2020)
§ 1304. Maintenance of partition fences; liability for enclosure of another's lands.
(a) The respective occupants of lands enclosed by fences shall maintain partition fences between them in equal shares, as long as both parties continue to improve the same.
(b) Where any person encloses land adjoining another's enclosed land, so that any part of the fence, or fence and ditch, or hedge and ditch, or wall, already made, becomes a partition fence, the fence-viewers shall determine what sum shall be paid by the one to the other, and the fence shall then be maintained by the parties equally.
Code 1852, §§ 1005, 1006; Code 1915, § 3627; Code 1935, § 4176; 25 Del. C. 1953, § 1304;
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