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2025 Delaware Code
Title 15 - Elections
Chapter 59. CONTESTED ELECTIONS
Subchapter I. Members of the General Assembly
§ 5908. Execution when costs are to be paid by contestant.

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15 DE Code § 5908 (2025)
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§ 5908. Execution when costs are to be paid by contestant.

Any order for the payment of costs by the contestant shall be enforced by a writ issued by the Speaker or President, as the case may be, of the house in which such election was contested to the Sheriff of Kent County, directing the Sheriff of Kent County to levy and make the amount thereof of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of the petitioner, under which writ the Sheriff shall sell the same, or such part thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the writ, upon 15 days' notice posted as required in cases of sale on execution process, and shall pay over the amount by the Sheriff of Kent County received upon the writ to the State Treasurer for the purpose of reimbursing to the Treasury the sums drawn therefrom to pay the costs of the contested election.

Code 1852, § 434;  Code 1915, § 1900;  Code 1935, § 2018;  15 Del. C. 1953, § 5908;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 
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