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Rule 20 – Permissive Joinder of Parties

by admin | May 15, 2021 | Civil Procedure, Civil Procedure common pleas, Delaware

(a) Permissive joinder. All persons may join in one action as plaintiffs if they assert any right to relief jointly, severally, or in the alternative in respect of or arising out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences and if any...

Rule 19 – Joinder of Persons Needed for Just Adjudication

by admin | May 15, 2021 | Civil Procedure, Civil Procedure common pleas, Delaware

(a) Persons to be joined if feasible. A person who is subject to service of process and whose joinder will not deprive the Court of jurisdiction over the subject matter of the action shall be joined as a party in the action if (1) in the person’s absence...

Rule 18 – Joinder of Claims and Remedies

by admin | May 15, 2021 | Civil Procedure, Civil Procedure common pleas, Delaware

(a) Joinder of claims. A party asserting a claim to relief as an original claim, counterclaim, cross-claim, or third-party claim, may join, either as independent or as alternate claims, as many claims as the party has against an opposing party.(b) Omitted. Del. Civ....

Rule 17 – Parties Plaintiff and Defendant; Capacity

by admin | May 15, 2021 | Civil Procedure, Civil Procedure common pleas, Delaware

(a) Real party in interest. Every action shall be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest. An executor, administrator, guardian, bailee, trustee of an express trust, a party with whom or in whose name a contract has been made for the benefit of another,...