§ 7309 — Penalties for fraud of petitioner

If it appears to the court that the petitioner has fraudulently secreted, transferred, disposed of, or removed any goods, chattels, rights, credits, money, or other property, or has been guilty of deception or fraud in contracting any debt, or has not fully and truly answered the interrogatories proposed, or has committed any fraud by which the petitioner’s creditors may be injured, the petition shall be dismissed and the petitioner remanded.

Legislative History

Code 1852, § 2688; Code 1915, § 4620; Code 1935, § 5078; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 7309; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1