(a) When the sheriff or other officer, to whom an execution is directed, levies or receives the sum due thereon, or any part thereof, or obtains a settlement of the execution, such officer shall make return of such receipt or settlement, under his or her hand, endorsed upon the execution, with the sum and date of each payment, if the execution is not fully satisfied. If the receipt or settlement is after the execution is returned, it shall be certified, within 30 days thereafter, to the prothonotary in whose office the execution is. In such latter case, the prothonotary shall annex the certificate to the execution. The prothonotary shall enter every return of payment or settlement upon the docket of the execution. If the judgment is thus satisfied, the prothonotary shall also note it on the record of such judgment.
(b) This section does not extend to an execution issued by a justice of the peace or the Court of Common Pleas.
Structure Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Subchapter III. Satisfaction of Judgments
§ 4751. Time for entry; penalty for failure to satisfy; jurisdiction.
§ 4753. Persons making and signing entry.
§ 4754. Penalty for failure to enter within time limit.
§ 4755. Officer holding execution; return of payments or settlement.
§ 4756. Real estate sold on execution; return of officer; duty of prothonotary.
§ 4757. Testatum fi. fa. or transcript of judgment in another county; duties of prothonotary.
§ 4758. Penalties for violations or neglect of duty by officers.