In re Deputy
Superior Court of Delaware
Rule to show cause why the present sheriff should not be required to make a new deed, to the party holding the title under the grantee, to certain lands in Christiana Hundred. Deputy’s petition filed was in part as follows:
1Opinion of the Court
Lore, C. J:—
In the matter of the petition of John P. Deputy alleging that in 1859 the then sheriff made a deed under a levari facias, but that he omitted the words “heirs and assigns,” the rule is upon the present sheriff to make a deed in pursuance of the statute.
Revised Code, 837.
The Court have fully considered the matter, and we are in entire accord that the prayer of the petitioner ought to be granted.
This is a remedial statute, and the application seems to come within the scope of the remedy of the statute. We therefore grant the petition, and the order is made upon the sheriff to *111make…
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