Current through 2016 Legislative Session, Act 399
Except as otherwise provided elsewhere in the Delaware Code all property, as hereinafter defined and not otherwise subject to escheat in accordance with this chapter, the title to which has failed and the power of alienation suspended by reason of: (1) The death of the owner thereof, intestate, leaving no known heirs-at-law; (2) the owner thereof having disappeared or being missing from the owner's last known place of residence for a continuous period of 5 years or more, leaving no known heirs-at-law; or (3) the same having been abandoned by the owner thereof, as hereinafter defined, shall descend to the State as an escheat in accordance with the Constitution, the general laws of this State or this subchapter.
12 Del. C. 1953, § 1197; 58 Del. Laws, c. 275, § 1; 63 Del. Laws, c. 299, §1; 66 Del. Laws, c. 379, §5; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;