United States · Delaware Court of Chancery
When must the Chancery Register docket completed consent-statute mailing?
Rule 4(e)(4) requires the Register to note completed summons mailing on the docket within three days. The consent statute separately controls when the mailing must occur.
- Period
- 3 days for the disclosed rule component
- Trigger
- Completion of the Register’s summons mailing under the applicable consent statute
- Rule
- Ct. Ch. R. 4(e)(4)
Official rules current as of June 1, 2026, reviewed. The calculator supports this current edition only.
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Which event starts this Ct. Ch. R. 4(e)(4) inquiry?
Completion of the Register’s summons mailing under the applicable consent statute
Identify the particular consent statute and preserve the completed mailing. The original complaint filing does not start this docket-note period.
Responsible actor. The Register in Chancery making the docket note. Use actual completion of the Register’s required consent-statute mailing. This administrative boundary is not the defendant’s response deadline.
Ct. Ch. R. 4(e)(4)How does Rule 6 count this particular component?
- Use actual completion of the Register’s required consent-statute mailing. This administrative boundary is not the defendant’s response deadline.
- Exclude the trigger day and count 3 days that are not Saturdays, Sundays or legal holidays under Rule 6(a)(1). These are short-period eligible days, not consecutive calendar days.
- Check the actual holidays, additional closures and applicable electronic or paper boundary.
- The Register notes when mailing occurred. Preserve the actual docket entry and mailing evidence; the calculation does not prove completed service.
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.
Ct. Ch. R. 6(a)–(c)What does an independently derived example show?
Fictitious example
Use actual completion of the Register’s required consent-statute mailing. This administrative boundary is not the defendant’s response deadline. Ordinary current-edition facts, no changed order and no exclusively mailed incoming service.
| Step | What is counted | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Established event | Completion of the Register’s summons mailing under the applicable consent statute | August 2, 2027 |
| Disclosed rule boundary | 3 days for the disclosed rule component | August 5, 2027 |
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.
Try these dates in the calculatorWhich qualifications change this procedure?
- Different mailing deadline
- The outer time for the Register’s mailing is specified by the applicable consent statute.
- Court act
- Rule 6(c)(2) does not add three mailing days to acts of the Court.
- 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 actual completion of the Register’s required consent-statute mailing. This administrative boundary is not the defendant’s response deadline.
- The base calculation does not obtain an extension, resolve a different branch or establish that the responsible actor completed the required act.
Which completed acts and evidence should be preserved?
Questions about Ct. Ch. R. 4(e)(4)
When must the Chancery Register docket completed consent-statute mailing?
Does this give the defendant three days to answer?
No. It directs the Register’s docket note. The defendant’s response has a separate governing period.
Ct. Ch. R. 4(e)(4)Is mailing due three days after complaint filing?
This rule’s three days follows completed mailing; the applicable consent statute controls the outer mailing time.
Ct. Ch. R. 4(e)(4)Are three more days added because the trigger is mailing?
No. The Rule 6(c) addition applies to qualifying acts by parties, not this Court act.
Ct. Ch. R. 6(c)(2)Official Chancery sources and edition review
Provisions used (11)
| Provision | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Ct. Ch. R. 4(e)(4) | The particular actor, event, procedural act and rule conditions |
| Ct. Ch. R. 4(e)(4) | The separately identified counting, filing, procedural qualification or edition source |
| Ct. Ch. R. 6(c)(2) | The separately identified counting, filing, procedural qualification or edition source |
| Ct. Ch. R. 6(a)–(c) | The separately identified counting, filing, procedural qualification or edition source |
| Ct. Ch. R. 5(b)–(f) | The separately identified counting, filing, procedural qualification or edition source |
| 1 Del. C. § 501(a)–(c) | The separately identified counting, filing, procedural qualification or edition source |
| Court of Chancery rule editions and amendments | The separately identified counting, filing, procedural qualification or edition source |
| May 18, 2026 implementing order, effective June 1, 2026 | The separately identified counting, filing, procedural qualification or edition source |
| July 12, 2024 corrected implementing order | The separately identified counting, filing, procedural qualification or edition source |
| September 23, 2025 Magistrate amendments, effective September 30, 2025 | The separately identified counting, filing, procedural qualification or edition source |
| Register in Chancery filing practices, July 26, 2023 | Older filing practices, read subject to the current Rule 5 text |