No grant, conveyance, devise or lease of personal or real estate to, nor any trust of such personal or real estate for the benefit of any person, and that person's successor or successors in any ecclesiastical office, shall vest any estate or interest in such person or such person's successor. No such grant, conveyance, demise or lease to or for any such person by the designation of any such office shall vest any estate or interest in any successor of such person. This section shall not be deemed to admit the validity of any such grant, conveyance, devise or lease made prior to its enactment.
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.