Delaware Code (Titles 8, 9, 25, 30)
25 Del. C. § 6301
Action at law; jurisdiction; case in which distress lies
Official textdelcode.delaware.gov
# (a)
Distress for rent is hereby abolished except pursuant to a rental agreement for a commercial unit and in that event it shall be an action at law which shall be brought as provided herein.
# (b)
The several courts of the justices of the peace shall have original jurisdiction in all cases of distress for unpaid rent regardless of the amount of rent notwithstanding any other law to the contrary.
# (c)
A distress shall lie for any unpaid rent due either in money or in a quantity of any tangible items, goods or produce pursuant to any rental agreement of a commercial unit.
Amendment history
58 Del. Laws, c. 472, § 1
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In this title (40 sections)
- 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
- 25-6708 · Obstruction by tenant; protection afforded tenant’s crops