The trustees elected and their successors shall be a corporation by the name adopted and certified. The corporation shall have perpetual succession with all the incidents and franchises of a corporation aggregate and may purchase, receive, hold, mortgage and enjoy property, real and personal, for the use of the society or congregation, their ministers or members or for schools, almshouses or burying grounds. The act of a majority of the trustees shall be valid.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 1. RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES AND CORPORATIONS
§ 101. Formation; increasing or decreasing number of trustees.
§ 104. Estate vested in corporation.
§ 106. Vacancies among trustees.
§ 107. Appointment of chair; powers and duties; access to records.
§ 108. Appointment and duties of treasurer.
§ 109. Registry of births, deaths, burials and marriages; certified copies as evidence.
§ 110. Gifts or grants to religious corporations.
§ 111. Validating certain religious corporations.
§ 112. Conveyances and grants to ecclesiastical officers.
§ 113. Conveyances and grants to religious corporations.
§ 114. Formation of Protestant Episcopal Church corporations.
§ 115. Formation of Roman Catholic Church corporations.
§ 116. Additional powers of Roman Catholic Church corporations; records; pastor as president.
§ 117. Filling vacancies among corporators of Roman Catholic Church corporations; change of name.