Delaware Code (Titles 8, 9, 25, 30)
25 Del. C. § 6105
Taxes paid by tenant; setoff against rent; recovery from owner
Official textdelcode.delaware.gov
Any tax laid upon lands or tenements according to law which is paid by or levied from the tenant of such lands or tenements, or a person occupying and having charge of same, shall be a setoff against the rent or other demand of the owner for the use or profits, of such premises. If there is no rent or other demand sufficient to cover the sum so paid or levied, the tenant or other person may demand and recover the same from the owner, with costs. This provision shall not affect any contract between the landlord and tenant.
Amendment history
58 Del. Laws, c. 472, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 513, § 10
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In this title (40 sections)
- 25-5712 · Default judgment
- 25-5713 · Jury trials
- 25-5714 · Compelling attendance of jurors
- 25-5715 · Execution of judgment; writ of possession
- 25-5716 · Stay of proceedings by tenant; good faith dispute
- 25-5717 · Stay of proceedings on appeal
- 25-5718 · Proceedings in forma pauperis
- 25-5719 · Landlord regaining possession of residential rental unit upon…
- 25-5720 · Shielding of records
- 25-5901 · Petition for receivership; grounds, notice and jurisdiction
- 25-5902 · Necessary parties defendant
- 25-5903 · Defenses
- 25-5904 · Stay of judgment by defendant
- 25-5905 · Receivership procedures
- 25-5906 · Powers and duties of the receiver
- 25-5907 · Discharge of the receiver
- 25-6101 · Metering and charges for utility services
- 25-6102 · Definitions
- 25-6103 · Preference of rent in cases of execution
- 25-6104 · Confession of judgment
- 25-6105 · Taxes paid by tenant; setoff against rent; recovery from owner
- 25-6301 · Action at law; jurisdiction; case in which distress lies
- 25-6302 · Form of claim; contents; costs
- 25-6303 · Order of distress; service of claim and order; levy;…
- 25-6304 · Levied goods in custody of Court; removal and sale;…
- 25-6305 · Protective measures upon a showing that a tenant may abscond
- 25-6306 · Procedure in the event of a forcible entry
- 25-6307 · Release of distrained property upon filing of bond
- 25-6308 · Answer to claim; hearing; final order of sale
- 25-6309 · Public sale of property distrained; notice of sale
- 25-6310 · Liability of officer
- 25-6501 · , 6502. Preference of rent in cases of execution; taxes paid…
- 25-6503 · , 6504. Discrimination in renting; refusal to rent because of…
- 25-6701 · Definitions
- 25-6702 · Term of verbal lease and term of lease in which no term…
- 25-6703 · Lease in which term expressed; notice to terminate;…
- 25-6704 · Remedy of agricultural landlord
- 25-6705 · Distress on agricultural leases
- 25-6706 · Preference of rent in cases of execution
- 25-6707 · Removal by tenant of hay