Delaware Code (Titles 8, 9, 25, 30)
8 Del. C. § 279
Trustees or receivers for dissolved corporations; appointment; powers; duties
When any corporation organized under this chapter shall be dissolved in any manner whatever, the Court of Chancery, on application of any creditor, stockholder or director of the corporation, or any other person who shows good cause therefor, at any time, may either appoint 1 or more of the directors of the corporation to be trustees, or appoint 1 or more persons to be receivers, of and for the corporation, to take charge of the corporation’s property, and to collect the debts and property due and belonging to the corporation, with power to prosecute and defend, in the name of the corporation, or otherwise, all such suits as may be necessary or proper for the purposes aforesaid, and to appoint an agent or agents under them, and to do all other acts which might be done by the corporation, if in being, that may be necessary for the final settlement of the unfinished business of the corporation. The powers of the trustees or receivers may be continued as long as the Court of Chancery shall think necessary for the purposes aforesaid.
Amendment history
56 Del. Laws, c. 50; 66 Del. Laws, c. 136, § 37
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In this title (40 sections)
- 8-257 · Merger or consolidation of domestic stock and nonstock…
- 8-258 · Merger or consolidation of domestic and foreign stock and…
- 8-259 · Status, rights, liabilities, of constituent and surviving or…
- 8-260 · Powers of corporation surviving or resulting from merger or…
- 8-261 · Remedies; appointment of stockholder representatives; effect of…
- 8-262 · Appraisal rights [For application of this section, see 81 Del.…
- 8-263 · Merger or consolidation of domestic corporations and…
- 8-264 · Merger or consolidation of domestic corporations and limited…
- 8-265 · Conversion of other entities to a domestic corporation [For…
- 8-266 · Conversion of a domestic corporation to other entities [For…
- 8-267 · Merger of parent entity and subsidiary corporation or…
- 8-268 · Amendments to certificate of incorporation of the surviving…
- 8-271 · Sale, lease or exchange of assets; consideration; procedure
- 8-272 · Mortgage or pledge of assets
- 8-273 · Dissolution of joint venture corporation having 2 stockholders
- 8-274 · Dissolution before issuance of shares or beginning of business;…
- 8-275 · Dissolution generally; procedure
- 8-276 · Dissolution of nonstock corporation; procedure
- 8-277 · Payment of franchise taxes before dissolution, merger, transfer…
- 8-278 · Continuation of corporation after dissolution for purposes of…
- 8-279 · Trustees or receivers for dissolved corporations; appointment;…
- 8-280 · Notice to claimants; filing of claims
- 8-281 · Payment and distribution to claimants and stockholders
- 8-282 · Liability of stockholders of dissolved corporations
- 8-283 · Jurisdiction
- 8-284 · Revocation or forfeiture of charter; proceedings
- 8-285 · Dissolution or forfeiture of charter by decree of court; filing
- 8-291 · Receivers for insolvent corporations; appointment and powers
- 8-292 · Title to property; filing order of appointment; exception
- 8-293 · Notices to stockholders and creditors
- 8-294 · Receivers or trustees; inventory; list of debts and report
- 8-295 · Creditors’ proofs of claims; when barred; notice
- 8-296 · Adjudication of claims; appeal
- 8-297 · Sale of perishable or deteriorating property
- 8-298 · Compensation, costs and expenses of receiver or trustee
- 8-299 · Substitution of trustee or receiver as party; abatement of…
- 8-300 · Employee’s lien for wages when corporation insolvent
- 8-301 · Discontinuance of liquidation
- 8-302 · Compromise or arrangement between corporation and creditors or…
- 8-303 · Proceeding under the Federal Bankruptcy Code of the United…