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2025 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Chapter 53. OATHS
Subchapter I. Authority to Administer Oaths
§ 5304. Court appointees and surveyors.
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§ 5304. Court appointees and surveyors.
(a) The persons appointed or authorized, by any decree, order, rule, or commission, made in or issued out of the Supreme Court, the Court of Chancery or the Superior Court to perform any duty, or for any purpose, may severally administer to each other and to any surveyor, or person, by them employed, and to any witness produced before them, any oath or affirmation required or proper to be taken in the case.
(b) Every surveyor may administer the proper oath or affirmation to chain carriers acting under the surveyor.
(c) The form of the oath or affirmation required to be taken by persons so appointed or authorized, with directions for administering the same, shall accompany every commission, rule, or order issued out of any court.
Code 1852, §§ 2356-2358; Code 1915, § 4244; Code 1935, § 4714; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 5304; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1;
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