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2025 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Chapter 49. EXECUTIONS
Subchapter II. Preferences
§ 4936. Medical and funeral expenses.
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§ 4936. Medical and funeral expenses.
Whenever any sheriff or constable, by virtue of any execution process, supersedes an executor or administrator, and sells the goods and chattels of any deceased person, on whose estate there have been letters testamentary or of administration granted, he or she shall, out of the proceeds of the sale, and before applying any part thereof towards satisfying any execution, pay, first, funeral expenses of the deceased; second, the reasonable bills for medicine and medical attendance during last sickness of the deceased, and for nursing and necessaries for the last sickness of the deceased.
15 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; Code 1915, § 4339; Code 1935, § 4812; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 4936; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1;
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