2025 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Chapter 95. PROCEDURE
Subchapter II. Civil Actions for Debt
§ 9533. Failure to appear; penalty.

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10 DE Code § 9533 (2025)
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§ 9533. Failure to appear; penalty.

If a witness, duly summoned, neglects to appear and testify before a justice, or before referees, the witness may, on proof that the witness has been duly summoned, be held in contempt of court under the provisions of § 9506 of this title and, in addition, be required to pay any additional court cost created by the witness' nonappearance.

Code 1852, § 2177;  Code 1915, § 4051;  Code 1935, § 4538;  10 Del. C. 1953, § 9533;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1;  76 Del. Laws, c. 27, § 4; 
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