Does a Chancery judgment automatically receive a thirty-day execution stay?

Entry of the judgment and its actual Rule 62 classification

The default stay excludes expedited or summary proceedings and the equitable-relief and Rule 54(b) branches. Do not assume every Chancery judgment receives protection.

Responsible actor. The parties considering execution or enforcement of the judgment. Identify the judgment’s relief, partial-judgment status, proceeding type and actual stay orders.

1. Entry of the judgment and its actual Rule 62 classification
2. The default stay excludes expedited or summary proceedings and the equitable-relief and Rule 54(b) branches. Do not assume every Chancery judgment receives protection.
3. Identify the actual competing event, court order or statutory condition described here before applying Rule 6. No single date is computed.
4. Preserve the actual judgment, any bond or approved security, and the operative stay or enforcement order.

The source guide explains the actual missing comparisons or procedural conditions. No computed or paid date is supplied.

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.

Assume an ordinary money judgment and an expedited equitable judgment entered together. Their automatic-stay treatment differs despite the shared entry date.

The automatic-stay inquiry requires actual judgment classification, excluded proceedings and court orders. A filing-date preset cannot establish the operative enforcement protection.

Equitable or partial judgment

Rules 62(c) and (d) exclude their specified orders from the automatic stay but allow the Court to provide relief.

Bond or other security

A money-judgment stay by security takes effect when the Court approves the security and lasts for the specified time.

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.

• Identify the judgment’s relief, partial-judgment status, proceeding type and actual stay orders.
• The automatic-stay inquiry requires actual judgment classification, excluded proceedings and court orders. A filing-date preset cannot establish the operative enforcement protection.

• Entry of the judgment and its actual Rule 62 classification
• The default stay excludes expedited or summary proceedings and the equitable-relief and Rule 54(b) branches. Do not assume every Chancery judgment receives protection.
• Rules 62(c) and (d) exclude their specified orders from the automatic stay but allow the Court to provide relief.
• A money-judgment stay by security takes effect when the Court approves the security and lasts for the specified time.
• Preserve the actual judgment, any bond or approved security, and the operative stay or enforcement order.
• 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.