DE · jury_instructions
Del. P.J.I. Crim. No. 11.908
Unlawfully Concealing a Will
UNLAWFULLY CONCEALING A WILL
In order to find Defendant guilty of Unlawfully Concealing a Will, you must
find the State has proved the following two (2) elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
(1) Defendant concealed, secreted, suppressed, mutilated or destroyed] a will,
codicil or other testamentary instrument;
(2) Defendant acted to defraud; and
(3) Defendant acted intentionally.
“Defraud” means to acquire a gain or advantage by fraud.
“Fraud” means an intentional perversion, misrepresentation or concealment of
truth.
“Intentionally” means it was Defendant’s conscious objective or purpose to
cause monetary injury or harm to another.
“Testamentary instrument” means a document by which a person directs his or
her estate to be distributed upon death.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.delaware.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
- Edition
- crim-2022-03-14
- Content hash
5b6aace3561d35edf46514c22bdd1c1a3e9b07ba80352caeb8668169a529ec77
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.