An execution shall not bind goods and chattels until it is delivered to the sheriff or other proper officer to be executed. An execution shall, from the time it is so delivered, bind all the goods and chattels of the defendant within the bailiwick, which shall be actually levied upon within 60 days thereafter. No levy upon goods and chattels, made by virtue of execution process, shall be of any force or effect as against a subsequent execution levied upon the same goods and chattels for a longer period than 3 years from the making of such first mentioned levy.
Structure Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Subchapter XIII. Lien of Execution
§ 5081. Time of binding of goods and chattels by execution; duration of lien.
§ 5083. Endorsing of date on writ.
§ 5084. Duty of sheriff upon receipt of execution.
§ 5085. Applicability to executions by the Court of Common Pleas or justices of the peace.