§ 5955. Costs.
§ 5955. Costs. (a) Costs in all cases under this subchapter shall be awarded against the unsuccessful party to the contest. (b) Charges for costs shall be as near as possible to the charges for similar services in other cases tried in the Superior Court. (c) Execution may issue to collect costs. 17 Del. Laws, […]
§ 5928. Certification by Superior Court.
§ 5928. Certification by Superior Court. The Superior Court, after hearing any contest of election of an elector or electors, shall make out and certify under the seal of the Court the ascertainment of the vote of the State for electors, and also certify the names of the persons chosen as electors, and cause such […]
§ 5941. Who may contest; causes.
§ 5941. Who may contest; causes. Any person claiming to be elected to an office to be exercised in and for any county, district or hundred may contest the right of any person declared to be duly elected to such office for any of the following causes: (1) For malconduct on the part of the […]
§ 5942. Irregularities not invalidating election.
§ 5942. Irregularities not invalidating election. No inequality or improper conduct in the proceedings of the election officers or clerks or any one of them, shall be construed to amount to such malconduct as to annul or set aside any election unless the inequality or improper conduct shall have been such as to procure the […]
§ 5943. Requirements to set aside election because of illegal voting.
§ 5943. Requirements to set aside election because of illegal voting. Nothing in this chapter shall be so construed as to authorize an election to be set aside or annulled on account of illegal votes unless it shall appear that an amount of illegal votes has been given to the person whose right to the […]
§ 5944. Circumstances under which contestant need not claim to have been elected.
§ 5944. Circumstances under which contestant need not claim to have been elected. When an election is contested because of alleged malconduct of the election officers holding the election or because the person whose right to office is contested was not eligible for such office, a proceeding may be instituted under this chapter against such […]
§ 5945. Statement of contestant; contents.
§ 5945. Statement of contestant; contents. When any person authorized to do so under this chapter desires to contest the right of any person declared duly elected to such office, that contesting person shall, within 20 days after the result of the election shall have been officially ascertained by the board of canvass, or officers […]
§ 5946. Verification of contestant’s statement.
§ 5946. Verification of contestant’s statement. The statement shall be verified by the oath of the contestant that the matters therein set forth are, so far as they relate to the contestant’s own act and deed, true and that what relates to the act and deed of any other person the contestant believes to be […]
§ 5947. Security for costs.
§ 5947. Security for costs. Any person contesting any election under this subchapter shall be required to give security for costs in such amount and manner as the court shall order. Such security, however, shall in no case be enforced unless judgment for costs be rendered against the contestant. 17 Del. Laws, c. 33, § […]
§ 5908. Execution when costs are to be paid by contestant.
§ 5908. Execution when costs are to be paid by contestant. Any order for the payment of costs by the contestant shall be enforced by a writ issued by the Speaker or President, as the case may be, of the house in which such election was contested to the Sheriff of Kent County, directing the […]