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2025 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Chapter 49. EXECUTIONS
Subchapter XII. Scire Facias on Judgments
§ 5071. Issuance for execution on judgments and recognizances; parties.
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§ 5071. Issuance for execution on judgments and recognizances; parties.
A writ of scire facias may be sued upon a judgment in a personal, or mixed action, as well as upon a judgment in a real action, as also upon all recognizances, to obtain execution of such judgment, or recognizances. Such writ may be sued by and against the parties to the judgment, or recognizance, and also by and against any other persons entitled, or liable, to the execution thereof, whether as executors, administrators, heirs, terre tenants, or otherwise.
Code 1852, § 2490; Code 1915, § 4407; Code 1935, § 4865; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 5071;
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