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12 V.S.A. § 3962
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3962. When a person to be served is not an officer

§ 3962. When a person to be served is not an officer|In cases of imprisonment by a person not an officer of the State or of the courts of the United States, the writ shall be directed to a sheriff or his or her deputy, commanding him or her to take and have the person imprisoned before the court or magistrate granting the writ, immediately after the receipt thereof, and summon the person by whom such prisoner is restrained to appear before such court or magistrate and show the cause for taking and detaining such prisoner.
12 V.S.A. § 3963
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3963. Receipt and return of writ; notice to State's Attorney or Attorney General

§ 3963. Receipt and return of writ; notice to State's Attorney or Attorney General|A person to whom the writ is directed shall receive the same and, upon payment or tender of the charges demandable for its execution, shall make return thereof forthwith. In case a person is restrained of his or her liberty by reason of a court sentence to a penal institution the judge may, in his or her discretion, order such other or further notice be given to the State's Attorney of the county in which the prisoner was convicted or to the Attorney General as he or she deems reasonable.
12 V.S.A. § 3964
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3964. Return of statement as to custody and authority

§ 3964. Return of statement as to custody and authority|In cases other than those provided for in section 3962 of this title, the person who makes the return shall state therein, and, in the cases provided for in such section, the person in whose custody the prisoner is found shall state, in writing, to such court or magistrate, plainly and unequivocally, whether he or she has or has not the prisoner in his or her custody or power or under restraint. If he or she has him or her in his or her custody or power or under restraint, he or she shall set forth at large the authority and the true and whole cause of such imprisonment or restraint, with a copy of the writ, warrant, or other process, if any, upon which he or she is detained. If he or she has had him or her in his or her custody or power or under restraint and has transferred such custody or restraint to another, he or she shall state particularly to whom, at what time, for what cause and by what authority such transfer was made.
12 V.S.A. § 3965
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3965. Return to be signed and sworn to; exception

§ 3965. Return to be signed and sworn to; exception|The return or statement shall be signed by the person making it, and shall be sworn to by him or her unless he or she is a sworn public officer and makes the return in his or her official capacity.
12 V.S.A. § 3966
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3966. Prisoner brought unless sick

§ 3966. Prisoner brought unless sick|The person who makes the return or statement, at the same time, shall bring the prisoner, if in his or her custody or power or under his or her restraint, according to the command of the writ, unless prevented by the sickness or infirmity of such prisoner.
12 V.S.A. § 3967
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3967. Examination in case of sick prisoner

§ 3967. Examination in case of sick prisoner|When the prisoner cannot be brought to the place appointed for the return of the writ, without danger, because of his or her sickness or infirmity, that fact shall be stated in the return. When such fact is provided to the satisfaction of such court or magistrate, he or she may proceed to the jail or other place where the prisoner is confined and there make an examination or adjourn the hearing to another time or make such order in the case as law and justice require.
12 V.S.A. § 3968
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3968. Examination; time; adjournment

§ 3968. Examination; time; adjournment|When the writ is returned, such court or magistrate, without delay, shall examine the causes of imprisonment or restraint; but the examination may be adjourned from time to time.
12 V.S.A. § 3969
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3969. Notice of examination

§ 3969. Notice of examination|When it appears that the prisoner is detained on a process under which another person has an interest in continuing his or her imprisonment or restraint, he or she shall not be discharged until sufficient notice has been given to such other person, or his or her attorney, if within the State, to appear and object to such discharge.
12 V.S.A. § 3970
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3970. Prisoner charged with crime, notice to State's Attorney

§ 3970. Prisoner charged with crime, notice to State's Attorney|When it appears that the prisoner is imprisoned on a criminal accusation, he or she shall not be discharged until sufficient notice is given to the State's Attorney, whose duty it is to prosecute for such offense, to appear and object to such discharge.
12 V.S.A. § 3971
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3971. Pleading; hearing

§ 3971. Pleading; hearing|The prisoner may deny any of the facts set forth in the return or statement and may allege other material facts. Such court or magistrate may examine the causes of the imprisonment or restraint in a summary manner and hear the evidence produced by any person interested or authorized to appear, in support of or against such imprisonment or restraint.
12 V.S.A. § 3972
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3972. Discharge; decision and record

§ 3972. Discharge; decision and record|When legal cause is not shown for the imprisonment or restraint, such court or magistrate shall discharge the person therefrom. The petition for a writ of habeas corpus heard by a court or magistrate, together with the decision thereon in writing, shall be returned for record to the office of the county clerk of the county in which the person is alleged to be restrained or confined, or, if restrained upon process issuing from a court, into the clerk's office in the county where such court is held. Such proceedings shall be docketed and properly indexed, and the same, together with the decision thereon, recorded in the same manner as other judgments of such court.
12 V.S.A. § 3973
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3973. Bail

§ 3973. Bail|When the prisoner is detained for a bailable cause or offense, such court or magistrate shall admit him or her to bail, if a sufficient amount thereof is offered, and if not, shall remand him or her with an order fixing the sum in which he or she shall be held to bail, and the court at which he or she shall be required to appear. A judge of the Superior Court in the county where such prisoner is confined may admit him or her to bail pursuant to such order before the sitting of such court. (Amended 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974.)
12 V.S.A. § 3974
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3974. Remand of prisoner

§ 3974. Remand of prisoner|When the prisoner is lawfully imprisoned or restrained or is not entitled to be released on bail, he or she shall be remanded to the person from whose custody he or she was taken or to such other person or officer as by law is authorized to detain him or her.
12 V.S.A. § 3975
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3975. Custody pending judgment

§ 3975. Custody pending judgment|Until the judgment is given, such court or magistrate may remand the prisoner, admit him or her to bail to appear from day to day, commit him or her to the custody of the sheriff of the county, or place him or her under such other care and custody as the circumstances of the case require.
12 V.S.A. § 3976
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3976. Refusal to receive or obey and execute writ- Contempt proceedings

§ 3976. Refusal to receive or obey and execute writ- Contempt proceedings|When a person to whom a writ of habeas corpus is directed refuses to receive the same, or does not obey and execute it, unless sufficient excuse therefor is shown, such court or magistrate shall compel obedience to the writ and punish the person guilty of the contempt forthwith, by process of attachment as for contempt.
12 V.S.A. § 3977
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3977. Precept to another officer or person

§ 3977. Precept to another officer or person|Upon such refusal or neglect, such court or magistrate may also issue a precept to an officer or other person, to be designated therein, commanding him or her to bring forthwith before such court or magistrate the person for whose benefit the writ of habeas corpus was issued. The prisoner shall be thereupon discharged, bailed, or remanded, in like manner as if he or she had been brought in on habeas corpus.
12 V.S.A. § 3978
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3978. Penalty for not executing writ

§ 3978. Penalty for not executing writ|A person neglecting or refusing to receive and execute a writ of habeas corpus shall forfeit to the person aggrieved $400.00, to be recovered in an action of tort on this statute.
12 V.S.A. § 3979
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3979. Confinement for contempt- Issuance and return of writ

§ 3979. Confinement for contempt- Issuance and return of writ|When a person disobeys the order, decree, judgment, or process of a court or a magistrate thereof, or is guilty of a contempt of such court or magistrate, and in consequence is imprisoned or confined by the order or judgment of such court or magistrate, such person shall be entitled to his or her writ of habeas corpus, returnable to the Supreme Court.
12 V.S.A. § 3980
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3980. Discharge of person confined for contempt

§ 3980. Discharge of person confined for contempt|When it appears on the hearing upon such writ that such disobedience or contempt was committed through ignorance, mistake, or misapprehension, or by acting in good faith under the advice of counsel, and that relief may be granted without impairing the rights of the parties concerned or the due administration of law, the Supreme Court may discharge such person from such imprisonment or confinement upon such terms as seem just.
12 V.S.A. § 3981
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3981. Bond

§ 3981. Bond|The Supreme Court may order the person bringing such writ to file a bond with the Clerk of the Court, in such sum and with such sureties and conditions as it directs, to be given to the Clerk of the Court or to such person as the Court designates in the order, and may further order that, upon filing such bond, the person may go at large. The bond may be prosecuted for the benefit of any party interested.
12 V.S.A. § 3982
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3982. Penalty for attempting to elude service

§ 3982. Penalty for attempting to elude service|Whether a writ has been issued or not, a person who has in his or her custody or under his or her power a prisoner entitled to a writ of habeas corpus, and who, with intent to elude the service of such writ or to avoid the effect thereof, transfers such prisoner to the custody, or places him or her under the power or control of another person, or conceals him or her or changes the place of his or her confinement, shall forfeit to the person aggrieved $400.00, to be recovered in an action of tort on this statute.
12 V.S.A. § 3983
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3983. Recovery of penalty not bar to further suit

§ 3983. Recovery of penalty not bar to further suit|The recovery of a penalty imposed by this chapter shall not be a bar to an action for false imprisonment or for a false return to the writ of habeas corpus or for damages.
12 V.S.A. § 3984
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3984. Imprisonment for same cause after discharge

§ 3984. Imprisonment for same cause after discharge|A person who has been discharged upon habeas corpus shall not be imprisoned or restrained again for the same cause, unless he or she is indicted therefor or convicted thereof, or does not find bail as ordered by a court of record or unless, after a discharge for a defect of proof or for material defect in the commitment in a criminal cause, he or she is again arrested on sufficient proof and committed for the same offense.
12 V.S.A. § 3985
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 143 - Habeas Corpus|§ 3985. Habeas corpus to bring respondent or witness into court

§ 3985. Habeas corpus to bring respondent or witness into court|Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a court from issuing a writ of habeas corpus, when necessary, to bring before it a prisoner for trial in a criminal cause pending in the court, or to be surrendered in discharge of bail, or examined as a witness in any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending in such court, when the personal attendance and examination of the witness is necessary in the administration of justice.
12 V.S.A. § 4251
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 161 - Action for an Accounting|§ 4251. Actions for accounting- jury

§ 4251. Actions for accounting- jury|The Superior Court shall have original jurisdiction in actions for an accounting other than accountings involved in the administration of trusts under Title 14A. When the defendant in such an action brought in one of the following ways pleads in defense an answer which, if true, makes him or her not liable to account, the issue thus raised may be tried to a jury:  (1) by one joint tenant, tenant in common, or coparcener, his or her administrator or executor against the other, his or her administrator or executor, as bailiff for receiving more than his or her just proportion of any estate or interest; (2) by an administrator or executor against his or her coadministrator or coexecutor, who neglects to pay the debts and funeral charges of the intestate or testator, in proportion to the estate in his or her hands, and he or she may recover such proportion of such estate as is just; (3) by an executor, being a residuary legatee, against the coexecutor to recover his or her equal and ratable part of the estate in the hands of such coexecutor; (4) by a residuary legatee against the executor; or (5) on book account. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 117, eff. March 29, 1972; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 2009, No. 20, § 5; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 80.)
12 V.S.A. § 4252
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 161 - Action for an Accounting|§ 4252. Items belonging to, tried in book account

§ 4252. Items belonging to, tried in book account|On the trial of an action founded on book account, if it appears to the court that any item or items of account or transaction between the same parties would more properly belong to an action for an accounting, the same may be tried and adjusted in the action founded on book account.
12 V.S.A. § 4253
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 161 - Action for an Accounting|§ 4253. Failure of defendant to appear; consequence

§ 4253. Failure of defendant to appear; consequence|In an action for an accounting, if a verdict is found against the defendant or if he or she does not appear, or appearing confesses that he or she ought to account, the court shall render judgment that he or she account. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 118, eff. March 29, 1972.)
12 V.S.A. § 4254
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 161 - Action for an Accounting|§ 4254. Defense before auditor

§ 4254. Defense before auditor|The judgment to account in the action for an accounting shall not prevent the defendant from making any defense before the auditor which he or she might have made by answer in bar to the action, if the judgment to account had not been rendered.
12 V.S.A. § 4255
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 161 - Action for an Accounting|§ 4255. Hearing by court; auditors

§ 4255. Hearing by court; auditors|When judgment to account is rendered, the court may hear, examine, and adjust the accounts between the parties or may appoint one or more auditors for such purpose.
12 V.S.A. § 4256
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 161 - Action for an Accounting|§ 4256. Hearing by auditors; report; judgment

§ 4256. Hearing by auditors; report; judgment|Such auditors shall hear, examine, and adjust all the accounts existing between the parties of a similar nature and in the same right, to the time of hearing, and report the same within 30 days after hearing before them is finished. Unless cause to the contrary is shown, the report shall be accepted by the court as conclusive of the facts in issue submitted and judgment rendered thereon for the sum found in arrears from either party with costs.
12 V.S.A. § 4257
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 161 - Action for an Accounting|§ 4257. Actions between partners, coparceners, or tenants in common

§ 4257. Actions between partners, coparceners, or tenants in common|In an action for an accounting, maintained by one or more partners against the other partner or partners, to settle and adjust their partnership accounts and dealings, or by one or more coparceners or tenants in common, to settle and adjust their accounts and dealings, the defendant or defendants shall have the right to trial by jury provided by section 4251 of this title. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 119, eff. March 29, 1972.)
12 V.S.A. § 4447
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 163 - Chancery Proceedings|§ 4447. Damages on final judgment

§ 4447. Damages on final judgment|When an injunction has been dissolved by a final judgment in favor of the enjoined party, he or she shall be entitled to recover his or her actual damages caused by the wrongful issuing of the injunction. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 120, eff. March 29, 1972.)
12 V.S.A. § 4481
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 163 - Chancery Proceedings|§ 4481. Receivers of goods attached

§ 4481. Receivers of goods attached|When the stock in a manufacturing establishment consisting of articles in the process of manufacture, with or without the materials necessary for the manufacture of the same, hereinafter referred to as "stock," is taken by virtue of a writ of attachment in a civil action, and cannot be sold without a sacrifice, and cannot be kept without loss and damage, on the motion of a party interested to the presiding judge of the Superior Court in which the action is pending or by complaint to any other Superior judge, the judge may appoint in his or her discretion a competent person to receive the stock so attached, complete the manufacture thereof, dispose of the same on the terms most advantageous to the persons interested, and apply the proceeds under the direction of the judge:  (1) to the payment of necessary expenses incurred by the receiver in the manufacture and sale of the stock; (2) to the payment of such sum as the judge deems reasonable to the receiver for his or her services; (3) to the payment of the costs of the proceedings; (4) the residue shall be applied as though the money were received by the officer, on the sale of the stock, by consent or otherwise, upon the original attachment. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 121, eff. March 29, 1972; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974.)
12 V.S.A. § 4482
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 163 - Chancery Proceedings|§ 4482. Notice of motion or complaint

§ 4482. Notice of motion or complaint|Notice shall be given to the parties to the attachment or their attorneys to appear and show cause why the prayer of the motion or complaint should not be granted before the receiver is appointed. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 122, eff. March 29, 1972.)
12 V.S.A. § 4483
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 163 - Chancery Proceedings|§ 4483. Receiver's bond

§ 4483. Receiver's bond|Before an order issues for him or her to take possession of such stock, the receiver shall execute and deliver to the clerk of the court issuing the order a bond with sufficient sureties, in such sum as the court directs, conditioned on the faithful execution of his or her trust and a true accounting, under the direction of the court, for the property received under such order.
12 V.S.A. § 4484
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 163 - Chancery Proceedings|§ 4484. Order for possession

§ 4484. Order for possession|Upon receipt of such bond, under the direction of the court, the clerk of the court shall deliver to the receiver an order to take possession of such stock, proceed in the manufacture and sale of the same as provided by sections 4481-4483 of this title, and require possessors of such stock to deliver same to the receiver. Such order shall be a sufficient warrant to the attaching officer or other possessor of such stock to deliver it to the receiver.
12 V.S.A. § 4485
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 163 - Chancery Proceedings|§ 4485. Borrowing money

§ 4485. Borrowing money|The presiding judge of the Superior Court in which the action is pending or other Superior judge may authorize the receivers or managers of property in the course of administration in that court, when the interest of the parties or property requires it, to borrow money for the proper and convenient discharge of their duties and on such terms, conditions, limitations, and security as shall to the court seem fit. This section shall not prevent the receivers or managers from borrowing money for temporary purposes. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 123, eff. March 29, 1972; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974.)
12 V.S.A. § 4601
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 163 - Chancery Proceedings|§ 4601. Appeals in foreclosure actions

§ 4601. Appeals in foreclosure actions|When a judgment is for the foreclosure of a mortgage, permission of the court shall be required for review. (Amended 1959, No. 261, § 66; 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 129, eff. March 29, 1972.)