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2021 Delaware Code
Title 25 - Property
Chapter 67. Agricultural Leases
Subchapter I. Rights and Duties of Landlords and Tenants
§ 6708. Obstruction by tenant; protection afforded tenant's crops.

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25 DE Code § 6708. (2021)
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§ 6708. Obstruction by tenant; protection afforded tenant's crops.

In the absence of a written contract to the contrary, no tenant of a farm shall obstruct or interfere with the cultivation and care of fruit trees, the seeding of wheat and other grains where by custom or by contract such seeding is to be done by the incoming tenant or the setting of plants necessary for future crops, by the landlord or that landlord's incoming tenant, their agents and employees, but no injury may be done to growing crops of the tenant, and such tenant shall remove or carry over such crops as is the custom in the community at a reasonable time to permit the seeding or setting of plants.

60 Del. Laws, c. 175, § 1;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 
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