A summary of the Landlord-Tenant Code, as prepared by the Consumer Protection Unit of the Attorney General's Office or its successor agency, shall be given to the new tenant at the beginning of the rental term. If the landlord fails to provide the summary, the tenant may plead ignorance of the law as a defense.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 51. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Subchapter I. Rights, Obligations and Procedures, Generally
§ 5101. Applicability of Code.
§ 5102. Exclusions from application of this Code.
§ 5104. Obligations of good faith.
§ 5106. Rental agreement; term and termination of rental agreement.
§ 5107. Renewals of rental agreements with modifications.
§ 5109. Rental agreement; promises mutual and dependent.
§ 5110. Rental agreement; effect of unsigned rental agreement.
§ 5111. Attorneys' fees prohibited.
§ 5113. Service of notices or pleadings and process.
§ 5114. Notice; contractual notice between the parties.
§ 5115. Application for a forthwith summons.
§ 5116. Fair housing provisions.
§ 5117. Remedies for violation of the rental agreement or the Code.
§ 5118. Summary of residential landlord-tenant code.
§ 5120. Landlord liens; distress for rent.
§ 5121. Confession of judgment.
§ 5122. Equitable jurisdiction relating to converted conditional sales agreements.