§ 2111 — Payment of funds into court

Where several persons claim money collected by a sheriff, or where the person entitled to receive it resides out of the sheriff’s bailiwick, and has no lawful attorney within the same, the sheriff may bring the money into the court from which the process issued upon which it was collected, there to remain subject to the order of the court. The sheriff shall thereupon be excused from the operation of § 2110 of this title.

Legislative History

Code 1852, § 572; Code 1915, § 1325; Code 1935, § 1504; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 2111; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1