Delaware Code
Subchapter II. Civil Actions for Debt
§ 9556. Duty of constable or sheriff upon receipt of execution; return of execution.

(a) A constable, or other officer, receiving an execution, shall, in a docket, set down the date of receiving it; and when several executions are delivered on the same day, the docket shall show the order in which they are received. The constable or other officer shall also endorse upon an execution, immediately on receiving it, the precise time the officer received delivery of the execution.
(b) The officer to whom an execution issued by a Justice of the Peace Court is delivered shall duly return it with a certificate of all the officer's proceedings, and a statement of the officer's fees, giving the items.
(c) If no levy is made, the reason shall be given.
(d) If the levy has been made, an inventory shall be returned, and shall state as whose property the goods and chattels were seized in execution.
(e) In case of a sale the list of the goods and chattels sold, with the amount thereof, shall be returned.

Structure Delaware Code

Delaware Code

Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure

Chapter 95. PROCEDURE

Subchapter II. Civil Actions for Debt

§ 9521. Mode of proceeding.

§ 9522. Issuance and requirements of summons.

§ 9523. Form of summons.

§ 9524. Service of summons; verification for default judgment.

§ 9525. Deposit for cost; representation of an artificial entity.

§ 9526. Time for hearing.

§ 9527. Adjournments.

§ 9528. Requirement of special bail for certain adjournments.

§ 9529. Discharge of special bail.

§ 9530. Proceedings against special bail; scire facias.

§ 9531. Depositions of nonresidents.

§ 9532. Form of subpoena.

§ 9533. Failure to appear; penalty.

§ 9534. Form of attachment for contempt.

§ 9535. Form of distress warrant.

§ 9536. Setoff or counterclaim.

§ 9537. Failure of defendant to appear; adjournment or judgment by default.

§ 9538. Application to vacate default judgment.

§ 9539. Failure of plaintiff to appear; adjournment or dismissal.

§ 9540. Entry of judgment; endorsement on cause of action.

§ 9541. Costs.

§ 9542. Judgments against executor or administrator.

§ 9543. Setting aside judgment on warrant of attorney.

§ 9544. Six months stay of execution.

§ 9545. Nine months stay of execution; security.

§ 9546. Transfer of judgment to Superior Court docket after stay of execution.

§ 9547. Execution process.

§ 9548. Form of execution process.

§ 9549. Garnishees; time for appearance; pleadings.

§ 9550. Proceeding by garnishee charging collusion.

§ 9551. Appeal from proceeding by garnishee.

§ 9552. Time of binding of goods and chattels by execution; duration of lien.

§ 9553. Levy; inventory.

§ 9554. Sale of goods levied upon; advertisement.

§ 9555. Priority of liens.

§ 9556. Duty of constable or sheriff upon receipt of execution; return of execution.

§ 9557. Venditioni exponas; issuance; requirements; effect.

§ 9558. Form of venditioni exponas.

§ 9560. Failure to pay over proceeds from execution.

§ 9561. Failure on return to produce receipt of proceeds.

§ 9562. Necessity of judgment and execution docket.

§ 9563. Judgment docket.

§ 9564. Execution docket.

§ 9565. Indexing of dockets.

§ 9566. Entry of judgment satisfaction by justice.

§ 9567. Entry of judgment satisfaction by creditor or execution officer.

§ 9569. Transfer of judgment to Superior Court; lien on real estate.

§ 9570. Right to appeal.

§ 9571. Appeal in civil actions.

§ 9572. Proceedings on appeal.

§ 9573. Execution upon striking of appeal.

§ 9574. Abatement and dismissal.

§ 9576. Remedy against deceased surety; assignment of creditor's remedies to surety.

§ 9577. Forms.

§ 9578. Survival of actions; parties.

§ 9579. Issuance, service and return of writ; proceedings.

§ 9580. Endorsement and docketing; assignment of judgment.

§ 9581. Revival of judgments.

§ 9582. Proceeding by attachment.

§ 9583. Issuance of writ; affidavit.

§ 9584. Form of writ; form of Garnishee's Notice of Service.

§ 9585. Goods and chattels subject to attachment; notice; judgment; creditors.

§ 9586. Service on garnishee; compelling attendance.

§ 9587. Process to compel appearance of garnishee.

§ 9588. Garnishment proceedings.

§ 9589. Dissolution of attachment.

§ 9590. Delivery of goods to constable; defense of garnishee; liability of constable.