Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 154

LIMITATION OF APPEALS AND EXCEPTIONS

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 147 OF THE REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE, 1935, RELATING TO LIMITATION OF APPEALS AND EXCEPTIONS, BY ADDING A NEW SECTION THERETO, LIMITING APPEALS OF THE SUPERIOR COURT FROM THE REGISTER OF WILLS AND THE ORPHANS' COURT.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That Chapter 147 of the Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, be and the same is hereby amended by adding a new section thereto, to be known as 5153a, Sec. 10a, as follows:

5153a, Sec. 10a. Appeals to Superior Court from Register of Wills and, in Certain Cases, from Orphans' Court; Limitations of Time for Taking:--No appeal to the Superior Court from any order, decree or act of the Register of Wills or from any order, decree or act of the Orphans' Court in cases the cognizance of which shall belong to the Orphans' Court by reason of the personal interest of the Register of Wills in the questions raised but which cases would otherwise be within the jurisdiction of the Register of Wills, shall be taken unless such appeal shall be begun within six months from the date of the entry or making of such order, decree or act or within six months from the date of the passage of this Act, whichever date shall be later.

Approved April 28, 1939.

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