Any person, individual or corporation holding land or goods and chattels or any interest therein in trust for any particular church or congregation, church society, congregation of the denomination wherein a Roman Catholic Church corporation is formed in accordance with the terms of this chapter, who conveys the same to the corporation as soon as possible after its formation under the terms of this chapter and any gift, devise, or bequest made to any such congregation, or to any person, individual or corporation in trust therefor, shall inure to the benefit of the corporation to be formed in such congregation (if any such corporation is so formed according to the terms of this chapter), whether the corporation is or is not accurately described in such gift, devise or bequest, provided that the intention of the donor or testator is clear that the same should inure to the benefit of the congregation.
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.