Delaware Code
Subchapter II. Preferences
§ 4937. Payment of medical and funeral expenses by sheriff.

In case there has been no administration or letters testamentary granted on the estate of the deceased, any sheriff or constable selling the deceased person's goods by virtue of any execution process, shall, before applying any proceeds of the sale towards satisfying any execution, pay in the order in which they stand, the bills mentioned in § 4936 of this title.