Delaware § 8708 Actions for recovery in New Castle County — Appeals; attachment

Delaware Statutes

§ 8708 — Actions for recovery in New Castle County — Appeals; attachment

Delaware·Title 9·Part County Taxes·Ch. 87 COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT TAXES·Subch. General Provisions

(a)The Office of Finance in New Castle County, if it fails to proceed or is prevented from proceeding by reason of the death, insolvency or bankruptcy of the person or corporation liable for the payment of any taxes, or for any other cause, may, in any case, recover the amount of such taxes as it is by law authorized to collect in a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction, against the person to whom property is assessed or in case the property is owned by any person to whom it is not assessed, then against the owner or owners of the property. If service, as in other civil actions or actions of debt, be had upon any 1 of several owners of real estate upon which taxes are levied, service need not be had upon the other owner or owners of the real estate, if a copy of the writ is

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(a) The Office of Finance in New Castle County, if it fails to proceed or is prevented from proceeding by reason of the death, insolvency or bankruptcy of the person or corporation liable for the payment of any taxes, or for any other cause, may, in any case, recover the amount of such taxes as it is by law authorized to collect in a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction, against the person to whom property is assessed or in case the property is owned by any person to whom it is not assessed, then against the owner or owners of the property. If service, as in other civil actions or actions of debt, be had upon any 1 of several owners of real estate upon which taxes are levied, service need not be had upon the other owner or owners of the real estate, if a copy of the writ is left with the tenant in possession or posted upon the premises 6 days before the return of the process. In such an action, it shall be sufficient to set forth that the action is to recover a specified sum of money being a tax assessed against property owned by the defendant in whole or in part, together with such description of the property, as will be sufficient to identify the same and the year for which the taxes were levied.

(b) A right of appeal shall be the same as in other civil actions.

(c) In case any defendant is a nonresident or a corporation not organized under the laws of this State, proceedings may be had in the Superior Court for the county by attachment. The writ of attachment shall be framed, directed, executed and returned and like proceedings had as in other cases of foreign attachment in this State, except that the Office of Finance shall only be required to make and file with the Prothonotary an affidavit stating that the defendant resides out of the State or is a corporation not existing under the laws of the State (as the case may be), and that the defendant or it is justly indebted for taxes in the sum of . . . . . . dollars.

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Legislative History

Code 1915, § 1167; 40 Del. Laws, c. 135, § 1 ; Code 1935, § 1360; 42 Del. Laws, c. 109, § 1 ; 9 Del. C. 1953, § 8708; 55 Del. Laws, c. 85, § 25D ; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1 ; 71 Del. Laws, c. 401, §§ 116, 117