When must ordinary Chancery Magistrate-report exceptions be noticed?

Date of the qualifying Final Report or Draft Report

In an ordinary civil action, exceptions to a nondraft Report wait until the Final Report. Draft exceptions affect which later issues may be raised.

Responsible actor. The party taking exceptions in a non-summary, non-expedited action. Use the qualifying Final Report or Draft Report date in the ordinary branch. Independently establish the right to except and no changed court schedule.

1. Use the qualifying Final Report or Draft Report date in the ordinary branch. Independently establish the right to except and no changed court schedule.
2. Exclude the trigger day and count 11 calendar days under Rule 6(a)(1). The less-than-11-day exclusion does not apply. Check the final weekend, legal holiday and actual Register accessibility.
3. Check the actual holidays, additional closures and applicable electronic or paper boundary.
4. File the notice of exceptions and complete service. Preserve the Report date, its draft or final status and the actual exceptions filed.

Rule 6(a)(1) excludes the event day. Periods below eleven days exclude intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays; eleven days or more include them. A final weekend or legal holiday moves forward for an after-event period and backward for a before-event period. Rule 6(a)(3) separately addresses actual Register inaccessibility for filings. Rule 6(a)(5) includes section 501 holidays and days declared by the Governor. Good Friday and Thanksgiving Friday are Delaware holidays. Sunday July 4, 2027 is observed Monday July 5. Check county-specific Sussex Return Day and additional actual closures separately; the bundled calendar does not determine those filing conditions.

Rule 6(c) adds three calendar days after the ordinary Rule 6(a) period only for an act measured after service made exclusively by mail. It applies to party acts, not Court acts. Electronic service, an entry-based clock and a filing-based clock do not acquire that addition merely because a paper copy is mailed. These calculations show the disclosed nonexclusive-mail base component; they do not implement the mail-only addition or infer service effectiveness.

These reviewed calculators use the official edition current as of June 1, 2026. Events before that date and backward periods crossing before that date receive no computed or paid date. This is publication coverage, not a finding that an actual procedural act is late. Historical editions, emergency measures, court-modified dates and actual additional closures require separate review.

Fictitious example

Use the qualifying Final Report or Draft Report date in the ordinary branch. Independently establish the right to except and no changed court schedule. Ordinary current-edition facts, no changed order and no exclusively mailed incoming service.

Fictitious current-edition facts. This is the disclosed component with no altered order or additional actual closure. It does not establish effective service, completed filing, judicial action or procedural entitlement. Exclusively mailed incoming-service additions require separate review.

Expedited and miscellaneous branches

Summary or expedited actions use three days; the Civil Miscellaneous Docket has its own Rule 144(d)(4) provisions.

No timely final exceptions

Absent timely notice after a Final Report, the Chancellor adopts it and prior Reports as orders under the specified branch.

Mail-only service and actual court schedule

Rule 6(c) adds three calendar days after the ordinary Rule 6(a) period only for an act measured after service made exclusively by mail. It applies to party acts, not Court acts. Electronic service, an entry-based clock and a filing-based clock do not acquire that addition merely because a paper copy is mailed. These calculations show the disclosed nonexclusive-mail base component; they do not implement the mail-only addition or infer service effectiveness.

Current edition and historical scope

These reviewed calculators use the official edition current as of June 1, 2026. Events before that date and backward periods crossing before that date receive no computed or paid date. This is publication coverage, not a finding that an actual procedural act is late. Historical editions, emergency measures, court-modified dates and actual additional closures require separate review.

• Use the qualifying Final Report or Draft Report date in the ordinary branch. Independently establish the right to except and no changed court schedule.
• The base calculation does not obtain an extension, resolve a different branch or establish that the responsible actor completed the required act.

• Date of the qualifying Final Report or Draft Report
• In an ordinary civil action, exceptions to a nondraft Report wait until the Final Report. Draft exceptions affect which later issues may be raised.
• Summary or expedited actions use three days; the Civil Miscellaneous Docket has its own Rule 144(d)(4) provisions.
• Absent timely notice after a Final Report, the Chancellor adopts it and prior Reports as orders under the specified branch.
• File the notice of exceptions and complete service. Preserve the Report date, its draft or final status and the actual exceptions filed.
• For electronic service and filing, Rule 5(d) uses midnight for an original complaint, notice of appeal, or paper in a summary proceeding or an action ordered expedited. Other papers in other actions must be served or filed by 5:00 p.m. Use Delaware local court time and preserve actual completed transmission and docket treatment. Do not replace the ordinary boundary with a federal midnight rule. Rule 5(c)(2)(B) permits self-represented delivery to the Register with the required fee, deemed filed when delivered. Check actual office availability. Rule 5(e) permits the Court, on satisfactory proof, to deem an unsuccessful electronic attempt timely; relief is not automatic.