If a sale is made of lands and tenements by order of the Court of Chancery, or by virtue of an execution, and the officer making such sale, or the purchaser, is dead, or if such officer is out of office, and the purchase money is paid, without a deed being made pursuant to such sale, the purchaser, or other person having right under the purchaser by descent, devise, assignment, or otherwise, may prefer to the Superior Court, or Court of Chancery, at any term of such courts respectively, in the county wherein the premises are situate, a petition representing the facts, and praying for an order authorizing and requiring the sheriff, or if there is legal exception to the sheriff, the coroner of the county for the time being, to execute and acknowledge a deed conveying to the petitioner the premises so sold, or a just proportion thereof. Thereupon the Court may make an order touching the conveyance of the premises according to justice and equity.
Structure Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Subchapter V. Sale Under Execution
§ 4971. Time of sale of goods and chattels.
§ 4972. Notice of public sale of goods and chattels.
§ 4973. Notice of public sale of real estate.
§ 4974. Place for public sale of real estate.
§ 4975. Officer conducting sale as barred from purchasing.
§ 4976. Deed of sheriff's sale.
§ 4978. Rent; time of entitlement; apportionment; proceedings.
§ 4980. Deed executed after petition; effect on title.
§ 4981. Recordation of petition and order; evidentiary value.
§ 4982. Deed after execution by sheriff's predecessor.
§ 4983. Deed by sheriff after expiration of term.
§ 4984. Deed by sheriff appointed to fill vacancy.
§ 4985. Discharge of liens upon execution sale; exceptions.
§ 4986. Payment into court of unclaimed proceeds from execution sale; disposition by court.