§ 920

(a) Any bank, savings bank, savings institution or trust company may receive money on deposit from or in the name of any minor. When any deposit of money shall be made by or in the name of any minor with any bank, savings bank, savings institution or trust company in this State, the same shall be held for the benefit of the depositor, in the same way and to the same extent as if the depositor were an adult person. The minor depositor may make drafts or withdrawals of his deposits, and the deposits shall be paid, together with the dividends and interest thereon, to the person in whose name the deposit shall have been made, or upon his or her written order. The receipt or acquittance of a minor shall be a valid and sufficient release and discharge to the bank, savings bank, savings institution or trust company for the deposit, or any part thereof. (b) Any bank, savings bank, savings institution or trust company shall have the right to refuse any deposit offered by or in the name of a minor. (c) Any minor depositing money with a bank, savings bank, savings institution or trust company shall be subject, in all transactions connected therewith, as between

ered by or in the name of a minor. (c) Any minor depositing money with a bank, savings bank, savings institution or trust company shall be subject, in all transactions connected therewith, as between himself or herself and the bank, savings bank, savings institution or trust company, to all the obligations, equities and defenses to which an adult person would be subject in similar transactions.27 Del. Laws, c. 196, §§ 1, 2; Code 1915, § 2113; Code 1935, § 2267; 5 Del. C. 1953, § 920;