If any person is absent from the State for 7 consecutive years, and no evident proof is made of the person's life in any hearing held under the foregoing provisions of this subchapter, the person shall be accounted dead.
Structure Delaware Code
Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
Subchapter I. Intestate Property
§ 1102. Escheator of the State [For application of this section, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 59, § 25.].
§ 1103. Suit to determine escheat.
§ 1104. Final hearing and order.
§ 1106. Seizure of escheated personalty.
§ 1107. Sale of seized property by sheriff.
§ 1108. Return of writ of seizure.
§ 1109. Lease, retention or sale of real property.
§ 1110. Conveyance of realty to purchaser after sale.
§ 1111. Nature of title of purchaser of realty.
§ 1113. Claims to proceeds of sale.
§ 1115. Expenses of Escheator.
§ 1116. Conveyance of certain escheated real property previously owned by a religious body.