§ 9545 — Nine months stay of execution; security

(a) If any defendant against whom a judgment is given for more than $5.00, besides costs, or any freeholder in relation to whom affidavit is made as in § 9544 of this title, gives, within 5 days after giving such judgment, or filing such affidavit, sufficient security to pay the judgment, there shall be a stay of execution thereon for 9 months from that time.

(b) The security shall be entered on the docket in the following form:

“On the day of , A. D. 20, A. B., (or A. B. and C. D., if two) becomes surety that this judgment shall be fully satisfied”;

and the entry shall be signed by the surety or sureties.

(c) The entry of security, and the entry prescribed in § 9546 of this title, shall be an obligation of record, and shall oblige the sureties, or their executors or administrators, jointly, or severally, to pay the judgment to which such entry refers, and after the expiration of the stay of execution the judgment may be executed and enforced against the sureties, their executors or administrators, without an action of debt, or a scire facias being first maintained or issued thereupon.

(d) If any defendant, in a judgment against several, is not a freeholder of the county, the foregoing provisions for 9 months’ stay on giving security shall apply, although there may be other defendants who are freeholders.

(e) If, in any case, execution has issued before the security is given, the same shall, on giving the security within the 5 days, be superseded and the proceedings thereon quashed.

Legislative History

Code 1852, §§ 2104-2107; Code 1915, § 4022; 34 Del. Laws, c. 222 ; Code 1935, § 4508; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 9552