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2025 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Chapter 95. PROCEDURE
Subchapter II. Civil Actions for Debt
§ 9539. Failure of plaintiff to appear; adjournment or dismissal.
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§ 9539. Failure of plaintiff to appear; adjournment or dismissal.
If a plaintiff litigating a civil suit fails to appear at any proceeding scheduled by the Court, the Court shall either:
enter a nonsuit judgment, which may be taken off in like manner as a judgment by default; dismiss the action according to court rule; or adjourn the matter for further proceedings, as the circumstances direct.Code 1852, § 2083; Code 1915, § 4011; Code 1935, § 4497; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 9543; 76 Del. Laws, c. 27, § 6;
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