Delaware Code (Titles 8, 9, 25, 30)
25 Del. C. § 904
Liability of cotenants
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A tenant in common, joint tenant or coparcener committing waste of the estate held in common, joint tenancy or coparcenary shall be liable to an action of waste at the suit of such tenant in common’s, joint tenant’s or coparcener’s cotenant.
Amendment history
70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 84 Del. Laws, c. 42, § 1
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In this title (40 sections)
- 25-735 · Costs
- 25-736 · Dower, curtesy or other estate in undivided shares of parties…
- 25-737 · Procedure where dower, curtesy or life estate exists
- 25-738 · Advancements; treatment upon partition
- 25-739 · Assignment of dower without embracing residue
- 25-740 · Election to take dower from proceeds of sale; investment or…
- 25-741 · Appointment of trustee for joint owner’s widow with a mental…
- 25-742 · Appraisement of value of widow’s dower; payment of widow’s…
- 25-743 · Investment or deposit of share of persons holding curtesy…
- 25-744 · Curtesy; barred by wrongful conduct of husband
- 25-745 · Real estate in more than 1 county; appointment of freeholders;…
- 25-746 · Partition of several tracts held by same joint owners; power…
- 25-747 · Partition of several tracts where some parties hold interest…
- 25-748 · Power of commissioners to make return of partition of part of…
- 25-749 · Certified copy of record as evidence
- 25-750 · Limitation of appeals
- 25-751 · Powers of Court of Chancery
- 25-901 · Liability in actions for waste
- 25-902 · Liability of an assignee and tenant in possession
- 25-903 · Liability of husband or assignee of tenant
- 25-904 · Liability of cotenants
- 25-905 · Actions by heirs
- 25-906 · Accidental fire in house not waste
- 25-907 · Service of writ; judgment by default
- 25-908 · Procedure upon death of either party
- 25-909 · Judgment
- 25-910 · Writ of estrepement
- 25-911 · Injunction or writ of estrepement upon petition of lienholder
- 25-1101 · Unauthorized removal of landmarks and marking of boundary…
- 25-1102 · Perpetuating testimony of boundaries
- 25-1103 · Marking and bounding lands; procedure
- 25-1104 · Notice of commission meeting; powers of commission; recording…
- 25-1105 · Effect of commission’s return; savings provision
- 25-1106 · Boundaries fixed by agreement of parties
- 25-1107 · Right of holders of separate parts of tract or of younger…
- 25-1108 · Fees of commissioners, surveyors, chain carriers and witnesses
- 25-1301 · Lawful fences; height; barbed wire
- 25-1302 · Liability for trespasses; fence-viewers to assess damages
- 25-1303 · Fence-viewers; appointment; powers; quorum; compensation
- 25-1304 · Maintenance of partition fences; liability for enclosure of…