If the petitioner is a tenant holding any lands or tenements under rent, the petitioner’s goods and chattels that are on the demised premises at the time of executing the assignment, shall be liable for the rent of such premises for the current or preceding year, if such rent be not paid, but for 1 year only. The landlord may require that such rent be paid before the removal of the goods or chattels from the demised premises.

Code 1852, § ?2705; Code 1915, § ?4629; Code 1935, § ?5087; 10 Del. C. 1953, § ?7324; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;