Delaware Code
Subchapter II. Payment of Legacies or Distributive Shares
§ 2314. Legacy to creditor of testator.

A legacy shall not be deemed to be in satisfaction of a debt due from the testator to the legatee, unless the intention of the testator that it shall be so accepted shall appear upon the will expressly or by manifest implication.

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Delaware Code

Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations

Chapter 23. ACCOUNTING AND DISTRIBUTION

Subchapter II. Payment of Legacies or Distributive Shares

§ 2311. Time for settling estate; accounting for interest or earnings pending settlement.

§ 2312. Payment of legacies; refusal to pay or deliver; bond; interest.

§ 2313. Anti-lapse; deceased devisee; class gifts.

§ 2313A. Failure of share of residuary.

§ 2314. Legacy to creditor of testator.

§ 2315. Payment of legacies or distributive shares to minors or persons absent from the State.

§ 2316. Payment of legacy, distributive share or trust fund where person entitled is out of State, unknown, etc.; proceedings.

§ 2317. Abatement.

§ 2318. Proportional contribution of legatees.

§ 2319. Transfer of investments or other property to guardian or trustee in payment of specific legacy or distributive share; receipt.

§ 2320. Release, acquittance or receipt to executor or administrator; form, execution, recording and evidence.

§ 2321. Distributions by fiduciaries in satisfaction of pecuniary bequests.

§ 2322. Effect of manslaughter or murder on intestate succession, wills, joint assets, life insurance and beneficiary designations.