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2025 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Chapter 81. PERSONAL ACTIONS
§ 8123. Forcible entry and detainer.
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§ 8123. Forcible entry and detainer.
No writs shall be issued, by a justice of the peace or the Court of Common Pleas, upon a complaint of forcible entry, after 1 year from the time of such entry; or upon a complaint of forcible detainer merely, after the tenant has been in continued possession of the premises for 2 years. These limitations need not be pleaded, but they shall defeat any such suit whenever it appears that they apply to it.
Code 1852, § 2208; Code 1915, § 4685; Code 1935, § 5143; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 8122;
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