Delaware Statutes
§ 4978 — Rent; time of entitlement; apportionment; proceedings
(a)In any case of sale, the purchaser shall be entitled to rent for the premises sold from the day of sale. If such premises are in possession of a tenant under rent, such rent shall be apportioned, according to the time; the proportion for the time the rent has been growing due to the day of sale, being payable to the lessor or the lessor’s assigns, and the residue to the purchaser. Each party shall have remedy by distress, or action, for such party’s just proportion.
(b)A purchaser may recover his or her proportion of rent, although such rent is reserved by deed (as well as rent from the day of sale, in case no rent has been reserved) by a civil action for use and occupation.
(c)In any action, or proceeding, for such rent, any fair defense, which would have availed against the perso
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Legislative History
Code 1852, §§ 2452-2454; Code 1915, § 4366; Code 1935, § 4824; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 4978; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1
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