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2025 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Chapter 47. JUDGMENTS
Subchapter IV. Judgments Against Executors and Administrators
§ 4772. Decedent's real estate as bound.
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§ 4772. Decedent's real estate as bound.
The real estate of a deceased person shall not be liable to be taken in execution upon, and shall not be bound by a judgment against deceased's executor or administrator, unless such judgment is rendered upon a verdict, or an inquisition, or upon the report of referees on a rule of reference entered, upon application of the parties, by the Superior Court, referring all matters in controversy to 3 judicious and impartial freeholders (or more if the parties so request) to be appointed by the Court. Judgment shall be rendered on their report or the report of a majority of them.
Code 1852, § 2417; Code 1915, § 4316; Code 1935, § 4788; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 4772; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1;
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