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2025 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Chapter 73. INSOLVENCY
Subchapter I. Proceedings for Discharge
§ 7309. Penalties for fraud of petitioner.
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§ 7309. Penalties for fraud of petitioner.
If it appears to the court that the petitioner has fraudulently secreted, transferred, disposed of, or removed any goods, chattels, rights, credits, money, or other property, or has been guilty of deception or fraud in contracting any debt, or has not fully and truly answered the interrogatories proposed, or has committed any fraud by which the petitioner's creditors may be injured, the petition shall be dismissed and the petitioner remanded.
Code 1852, § 2688; Code 1915, § 4620; Code 1935, § 5078; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 7309; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1;
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