Delaware Code (Titles 8, 9, 25, 30)
25 Del. C. § 908
Procedure upon death of either party
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The action for waste shall not abate by the death of either party, but the heir shall be admitted to prosecute the action for waste on the death of the plaintiff. If the defendant dies, the defendant’s executors or administrators may be made parties by a writ of scire facias.
Amendment history
70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1
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In this title (40 sections)
- 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…
- 25-1305 · Judgment of fence-viewers; enforcement and penalty for…
- 25-1306 · Division ditches and fences; remedy for neglect to maintain;…
- 25-1307 · Recovery of awards by fence-viewers
- 25-1401 · Liability for damages; court’s authority to determine whether…