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2022 Delaware Code
Title 25 - Property
Chapter 63. DISTRESS FOR RENT
§ 6301. Action at law; jurisdiction; case in which distress lies.
Universal Citation: 25 DE Code § 6301 (2022)
§ 6301. Action at law; jurisdiction; case in which distress lies.
(a) Distress for rent is hereby abolished except pursuant to a rental agreement for a commercial unit and in that event it shall be an action at law which shall be brought as provided herein.
(b) The several courts of the justices of the peace shall have original jurisdiction in all cases of distress for unpaid rent regardless of the amount of rent notwithstanding any other law to the contrary.
(c) A distress shall lie for any unpaid rent due either in money or in a quantity of any tangible items, goods or produce pursuant to any rental agreement of a commercial unit.
25 Del. C. 1953, § 6301; 58 Del. Laws, c. 472, § 1;
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