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2025 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Chapter 49. EXECUTIONS
Subchapter XII. Scire Facias on Judgments
§ 5073. Execution on judgments of the Court of Common Pleas or justices of the peace.
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§ 5073. Execution on judgments of the Court of Common Pleas or justices of the peace.
An execution may be issued upon a judgment recovered before the Court of Common Pleas or a justice of the peace, and of which a transcript has been filed and entered in the Superior Court, or on a judgment upon an appeal from the Court of Common Pleas or a justice of the peace, at any time within 5 years from entering the transcript, or giving the judgment on appeal, without scire facias, unless it is necessary to make a party defendant. A party plaintiff may be made by suggesting the facts and stating the proper party on the record, without scire facias, and the proceeding shall be in the name of the proper party so stated.
Code 1852, § 2491; Code 1915, § 4409; Code 1935, § 4867; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 5073;
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