(a) In all cases where no agreement for the renewal and extension of the lien of judgments, as provided for in this subchapter, has been minuted and certified, the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such judgments or the assignee or assignees thereof or the person or persons to whose use such judgment has been or shall be marked, or his, her, or their executors or administrators, may cause a writ of scire facias to be issued against the defendant or defendants in such judgment and the terre tenant or terre tenants of the real estate bound by such lien or, in case of a judgment on a mechanic's lien, the terre tenant or terre tenants, directed to the sheriff of the county in which such writ issues, commanding the sheriff to make known to the defendant or defendants therein that the defendant or defendants appear before the court and show cause, if any there be, why the lien of such judgment should not be renewed and continued and execution should not issue on such judgment. In all respects the practice, pleadings and procedure upon such scire facias shall conform as nearly as may be to the practice, pleadings and procedure on other writs of scire facias sued out of the courts upon judgments under existing law.
(b) If final judgment is rendered for the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such writ, it shall be that the lien of such original judgments stands renewed and continued for the term of 10 years next following the day of the entry of such judgment in the action of scire facias, and that the plaintiff or plaintiffs therein have execution thereon as in other cases during the term of 10 years.
Structure Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Subchapter I. Lien of Judgments
§ 4702. Time of binding lands.
§ 4703. Time entry of judgment upon verdict is effective.
§ 4704. Ascertaining amount of judgment; time of entry.
§ 4705. Priority of judgments entered same day.
§ 4706. Entry during term; docket date.
§ 4707. Justice of the peace and Court of Common Pleas judgments.
§ 4708. Supreme Court judgments.
§ 4709. Prothonotary to enter Supreme Court judgment.
§ 4710. Effect of Supreme Court judgment.
§ 4711. Time limitation of judgment lien; extension of time.
§ 4712. Effect of extension; subsequent renewals.
§ 4713. Seizure of real estate by execution after losing lien.
§ 4714. Revived judgment as lien on real estate.
§ 4715. Scire facias for extension of lien.
§ 4716. Cases in which the 10 year limitation shall not apply.