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Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 701. Creation of estate in joint tenancy; exception. - No estate, in joint tenancy, in lands, tenements or hereditaments...
§ 702. Actions for use and occupation between cotenants. - A tenant in common or a joint tenant or a...
Subchapter II. Partition Proceedings
§ 721. Petition for partition; persons entitled to apply. - (a) When any 2 or more persons hold lands and...
§ 722. Service of summons. - (a) If a party, named in the summons for partition...
§ 723. Unknown or uncertain parties in interest; description in petition; service by publication. - If in any cause in partition it is unknown whether...
§ 724. Decree of partition; appointment and duties of commissioners. - Upon the return of the summons, if the parties summoned...
§ 725. Appointment of a new commission. - If from any cause a commission is returned without partition,...
§ 726. Final decree of partition. - If, upon the return of the commissioners, it appears that...
§ 727. Proportionment of shares among issue claiming by stocks. - Whenever the issue of any child or other kindred of...
§ 728. Procedure upon petition by all interested parties. - Upon the petition of all the persons of lawful age...
§ 729. Appointment of trustee for public sale of premises; conveyance by trustee. - If from the return of the commissioners it appears that...
§ 730. Allotment of primary interests. - If it appears to the commissioners that partition of the...
§ 731. Deed upon death of purchaser. - If the purchaser of any lands and premises sold under...
§ 732. Title upon sale; transfer of liens to proceeds. - A purchase of the premises pursuant to the foregoing provisions...
§ 733. Investment or division of sale proceeds. - The proceeds of the sale, after deducting the costs of...
§ 734. Sales upon credit; purchase money security; preference of mortgage. - The Court may, in its discretion, direct that sales made...
§ 735. Costs. - The costs of a proceeding for partition shall be taxed...
§ 736. Dower, curtesy or other estate in undivided shares of parties to partition proceedings. - A sale of any lands, tenements and hereditaments, pursuant to...
§ 737. Procedure where dower, curtesy or life estate exists. - If there is a tenant by the curtesy or other...
§ 738. Advancements; treatment upon partition. - (a) If any child of an intestate or any issue...
§ 739. Assignment of dower without embracing residue. - Upon the petition of a widow entitled to dower, or...
§ 740. Election to take dower from proceeds of sale; investment or deposit of widow's share. - If there is a widow entitled to dower, and the...
§ 741. Appointment of trustee for joint owner's widow with a mental disability. - If a parcener, tenant in common or joint tenant, or...
§ 742. Appraisement of value of widow's dower; payment of widow's share and distribution of residue. - The Court of Chancery in which a partition proceeding may...
§ 743. Investment or deposit of share of persons holding curtesy interest or life estate; appraisement and payment upon petition. - A tenant by the curtesy or other life tenant of...
§ 744. Curtesy; barred by wrongful conduct of husband. - If a husband leaves his wife to go with an...
§ 745. Real estate in more than 1 county; appointment of freeholders; effect of recording in another county. - (a) Where the real estate which is the subject of...
§ 746. Partition of several tracts held by same joint owners; power of commissioners and Court. - The Court of Chancery may make a decree for partition...
§ 747. Partition of several tracts where some parties hold interest in all and other parties hold interest in part. - In a partition of several tracts or parcels of land...
§ 748. Power of commissioners to make return of partition of part of lands; procedure. - The commissioners appointed under § 724 of this title may,...
§ 749. Certified copy of record as evidence. - A copy of any proceedings for partition had pursuant to...
§ 750. Limitation of appeals. - No appeal shall lie from any order or decree of...
§ 751. Powers of Court of Chancery. - For the purpose of effectuating the provisions of this chapter,...