Delaware Code
Subchapter II. Civil Actions for Debt
§ 9578. Survival of actions; parties.

(a) The death of a party shall not abate any action pending before a justice, or any appeal, or right of appeal, or any certiorari. If there are several plaintiffs, or defendants, and one dies, the action, or proceeding, may be prosecuted for, or against the survivor; and if the sole, or only remaining plaintiff, or defendant, dies, the executor, or administrator, of the deceased party, may become, or be made, a party to prosecute or defend.
(b) To make an executor, or administrator, of a defendant a party before the justice, a plaintiff must issue a summons in the usual form, adding after the words “is demanded,” the words “for which cause of action suit was commenced against the said . . . . . . . . . . . ., deceased, in his or her lifetime, and was pending at his or her death; to which the said . . . . . . . . . . . . executor (or administrator) is required to become a party.”
(c) The summons shall be returnable as other original summons; and on service made, the executor, or administrator, shall be made a party, and the same proceedings had as in other cases.

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.