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12 V.S.A. § 2691
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2691. Executions against trustees of colleges or proprietors of undivided lands

§ 2691. Executions against trustees of colleges or proprietors of undivided lands|When judgment is rendered against the trustees of colleges or academies or proprietors of undivided lands, execution shall issue against the goods, chattels, or lands of such trustees or proprietors.
12 V.S.A. § 2692
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2692. Invalid and informal levies- New execution

§ 2692. Invalid and informal levies- New execution|When an execution is levied on real or personal estate, and it afterwards appears that the estate did not belong to the debtor, or was encumbered by a mortgage not regarded in a sale thereof on execution, by reason of which the levy and sale are void, the court, upon motion, notice, and hearing, may issue an execution for the original execution, or so much thereof as was satisfied by the levy, and the costs thereon with interest on the same from the time of the levy, and the costs of the motion. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 67, eff. March 29, 1972.)
12 V.S.A. § 2693
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2693. When costs not allowed

§ 2693. When costs not allowed|When it appears that the estate was turned out to the officer by the creditor or taken without the consent of the debtor, the creditor shall not recover costs on the former execution or on the motion. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 68, eff. March 29, 1972.)
12 V.S.A. § 2695
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2695. Defective execution on real estate; application

§ 2695. Defective execution on real estate; application|Where an execution has been levied on real estate and the levy, sale, or deed is irregular, informal, or not according to law and the title derived therefrom is doubtful, within two years from the time of sale, a party interested may bring an action in the Superior Court, setting forth in the complaint the respects in which it is claimed the proceedings on the execution were irregular, informal, and not according to law. Upon hearing, the presiding judge may grant the plaintiff and all parties interested such relief as is equitable. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 70, eff. March 29, 1972; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974.)
12 V.S.A. § 2696
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2696. Levy valid if affirmed or action not brought

§ 2696. Levy valid if affirmed or action not brought|When the action is not brought within the time limited or if on hearing the presiding judge decides that the proceedings on execution were legally sufficient, a levy, sale, and deed shall be valid to convey the right, title, or interest that the judgment debtor had at the time of the levy in the real estate sold and shall be conclusive evidence of the title in the estate against the debtor or his or her representatives. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 71, eff. March 29, 1972.)
12 V.S.A. § 2697
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2697. Costs

§ 2697. Costs|Costs may be taxed for either party on the action. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 72, eff. March 29, 1972.)
12 V.S.A. § 2731
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2731. Levy on personal property

§ 2731. Levy on personal property|When the execution with costs is not paid on demand the officer shall levy the same upon the goods or chattels of the debtor or such as are shown him or her by the creditor, and the same shall be safely kept by the officer at the debtor's expense, until sold or the execution is otherwise satisfied.
12 V.S.A. § 2732
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2732. Goods, effects, and credits held by third person

§ 2732. Goods, effects, and credits held by third person|On request of the judgment creditor, the clerk of the court granting judgment shall issue to the officer holding the execution a summons as trustee to a third person having in his or her hands goods, effects, or credits, other than earnings, of the debtor that have not previously been attached on trustee process in connection with the action. The summons shall be in such form as the Supreme Court may by rule provide for a summons to a trustee in connection with the commencement of an action and shall state the date and amount of the judgment. The summons shall be served by the officer upon the trustee in like manner and with the same effect as mesne process. A copy of the summons shall be served upon the judgment debtor with the officer's endorsement thereon of the date of service upon the trustee. After service of the summons, proceedings shall be had as provided by law and by rule promulgated by the Supreme Court for trustee process in connection with the commencement of an action. (Added 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 235, eff. March 29, 1972.)
12 V.S.A. § 2733
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2733. Advertisement

§ 2733. Advertisement|(a) The officer shall forthwith advertise the goods or chattels so taken by posting at a public place in the town where they were taken a notice enumerating them and stating the time when the same will be sold at public auction at such public place, which time shall not be less than 14 days from the time of posting such notice. If the amount of the execution is $50.00 or more and if the cost of publication does not exceed $2.00, such notice shall also be published two weeks successively prior to such sale in at least one newspaper published in such town, if there are any published therein, and, if not, in a newspaper of known circulation in such town.(b) When the property levied upon is hay, grain in the straw, potatoes, timber, lumber, brick, lime, coal, charcoal, ashes, machinery used in a shop, mill or factory, hides in the process of tanning, cordwood, stone, ore, bark, shingles, hives of bees, hay scales, or the utensils and apparatus kept on a farm for the manufacture of maple sugar, the notice shall state the time when the same will be sold, either at the place where the same are kept by the officer or at such public place.
12 V.S.A. § 2734
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2734. Sale

§ 2734. Sale|When the debtor does not satisfy the execution with costs and charges thereon before the time of sale, the officer shall, at the time and place appointed, sell the same, or a part thereof sufficient to satisfy the execution with the costs and charges thereon, at public auction to the highest bidder.
12 V.S.A. § 2735
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2735. Application of proceeds

§ 2735. Application of proceeds|The monies arising from such sales shall be applied to the payment of the charges and the satisfaction of the execution. The officer shall pay on demand the residue, if any, to the debtor.
12 V.S.A. § 2736
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2736. Penalty for not paying to creditor

§ 2736. Penalty for not paying to creditor|An officer who, on demand, does not pay to the creditor in an execution, his or her agent or attorney, such sums of money as he or she receives on the execution, shall forfeit to the person to whose use he or she received the same, 15 percent interest thereon, so long as he or she detains it after demand, to be recovered in an action of tort on this statute.
12 V.S.A. § 2737
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2737. Officer's return

§ 2737. Officer's return|The officer serving the execution shall make return thereof with his or her doings thereon, describing the goods or chattels taken and sold and the sum for which each was sold.
12 V.S.A. § 2738
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2738. Action against officer for fraud or collusion

§ 2738. Action against officer for fraud or collusion|When such officer is guilty of fraud or collusion on such sale or return, he or she shall pay the party injured three times the amount of damages occasioned by such fraud or collusion, to be recovered in an action of tort on this statute, with costs.
12 V.S.A. § 2739
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2739. United States currency

§ 2739. United States currency|United States currency may be taken in execution and paid to the creditor as money collected. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 73, eff. March 29, 1972.)
12 V.S.A. § 2742
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2742. Security by creditor in case of doubt as to ownership or liability of chattels to attachment or execution

§ 2742. Security by creditor in case of doubt as to ownership or liability of chattels to attachment or execution|When there is reasonable doubt as to the ownership of the goods or chattels or as to their liability to be taken on a writ of attachment or execution, the officer may require sufficient security to indemnify him or her for taking the same. If the creditor, his or her agent or attorney does not, within a reasonable time after the request, give the security to the officer, he or she may release them to the person from whom they were taken, at any time before the sale of the goods or chattels, and may take other goods or chattels, or, when permitted under section 2741 of this title, the body of the debtor, and for want thereof may return a non est inventus. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 75, eff. March 29, 1972.)
12 V.S.A. § 2743
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2743. Executions against municipal corporations- To issue against goods or chattels of inhabitants

§ 2743. Executions against municipal corporations- To issue against goods or chattels of inhabitants|When judgment is rendered against a county, town, village, school, or fire district, execution shall issue against the goods or chattels of the inhabitants of such county, town, village, school, or fire district, and may be levied and collected of the same.
12 V.S.A. § 2744
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2744. Demand; payment from municipal funds

§ 2744. Demand; payment from municipal funds|The officer who receives any such execution shall forthwith demand the amount thereof of the treasurer of the county, town, village, or district. Such treasurer shall pay the same with charges, if there are sufficient monies in his or her hands belonging to such county, town, village, or district.
12 V.S.A. § 2745
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2745. Levy when not paid

§ 2745. Levy when not paid|If the execution or a part thereof remains unpaid, at the expiration of 12 days after making such demand, and not sooner, the officer shall levy and collect the same as therein directed.
12 V.S.A. § 2746
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2746. Payment by inhabitant whose property is taken

§ 2746. Payment by inhabitant whose property is taken|An inhabitant whose goods or chattels are taken on such execution, may pay to the officer the amount of such execution and the charges thereon before their sale.
12 V.S.A. § 2747
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2747. Recovery against municipality

§ 2747. Recovery against municipality|Such inhabitant shall be entitled to recover against the county, town, village, or district, the sum so paid or levied on his or her goods or chattels, with 12 percent interest thereon, in an action of contract on this statute.
12 V.S.A. § 2781
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2781. Real estate which may be taken

§ 2781. Real estate which may be taken|Houses, lands, and tenements belonging to a person in his or her own right in fee, or for his or her own life, or the life of another, paying no rents for the same, or for years, or an unlimited time, paying rents for the same, and rights in equity of redeeming lands mortgaged, or in reversion or remainder, as well as his or her personal estate, shall stand charged with the debts and demands owing by such person, and may be taken in execution for the same at the election of the creditor, unless the debtor, his or her agent or attorney, exposes and tenders personal estate sufficient to satisfy the execution and the charges.
12 V.S.A. § 2782
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2782. Real estate defined

§ 2782. Real estate defined|The words "real estate" as used in this chapter shall mean such lands, tenements, rights, and estates as are made liable to execution by section 2781 of this title.
12 V.S.A. § 2783
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2783. Officer may lodge copy in clerk's office

§ 2783. Officer may lodge copy in clerk's office|When the officer holding an execution for collection is directed by the creditor, his or her agent or attorney, to levy the same on the real estate of the debtor, he or she may lodge in the office where by law a deed of such real estate is required to be recorded, a certified copy of the execution, with a certificate thereon, under his or her hand, stating that he or she is directed to levy the same on such real estate, designating the same as it would be described in case of the attachment of real estate.
12 V.S.A. § 2784
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2784. Estate held five months

§ 2784. Estate held five months|The real estate thus designated shall be held to satisfy such execution for the term of five months from the time of lodging the copy thereof, as provided in section 2783 of this title. When encumbered by previous attachments, the lien thus created shall remain, after the removal of such encumbrance, as if the estate had been attached on mesne process by the creditor in such execution.
12 V.S.A. § 2785
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2785. Estate in joint tenancy

§ 2785. Estate in joint tenancy|When the real estate of a debtor is held in joint tenancy, coparcenary, or tenancy in common, with the real estate of other persons, the officer may levy the execution on such debtor's undivided interest in such real estate, and sell the same as other real estate may be sold.
12 V.S.A. § 2786
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2786. Sale of real estate on execution; public auction

§ 2786. Sale of real estate on execution; public auction|When an execution is levied upon real estate, the same or an undivided fractional part thereof sufficient to satisfy the execution with costs shall be sold at public auction by the officer to the highest bidder, in satisfaction of the execution, either upon such real estate or at some public place in the town where it is situated or, if situated in an unorganized town or gore, in an adjoining town.
12 V.S.A. § 2787
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2787. Notice, advertisement, and sale

§ 2787. Notice, advertisement, and sale|The officer levying the execution shall give the debtor at least 60 days' notice of the time and place of sale in writing, served upon him or her, within or outside the State, either (1) by delivery in hand personally or (2) by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, with instructions to deliver to addressee only. The officer shall also cause an advertisement of the time and place of sale to be published three weeks successively next before the time of sale, in one or more newspapers published in the county where the land lies or, if a newspaper is not published therein, in some newspaper published in an adjoining county. Unless the execution with costs and charges thereon, including expense of advertising, is paid, the officer shall proceed with the sale. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 76, eff. March 29, 1972.)
12 V.S.A. § 2788
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2788. Notice to subsequent attaching or levying creditor

§ 2788. Notice to subsequent attaching or levying creditor|When the real estate levied upon is subject to a subsequent attachment or levy, the officer shall give notice of such sale to the subsequent attaching or levying creditor in the same manner as provided for notice to the execution debtor in section 2787 of this title.
12 V.S.A. § 2789
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2789. Adjournment; manner of sale

§ 2789. Adjournment; manner of sale|For good cause, the officer may postpone such sale for a time not exceeding seven days, and so from time to time until it is completed, giving notice of such adjournment by public proclamation at the time and place appointed for the sale. Such real estate, or an undivided fractional part thereof sufficient to satisfy the execution with costs, shall be sold, and if, in the opinion of the officer, it is divisible, shall be sold in separate tracts and parcels.
12 V.S.A. § 2790
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2790. Officer's deed to purchaser; effect

§ 2790. Officer's deed to purchaser; effect|The officer selling such real estate, if the same is not redeemed, shall make, execute, and acknowledge a sufficient deed thereof to the purchaser, and deliver the same to him or her as hereinafter provided. When the deed is recorded in the office where by law a deed of real estate is required to be recorded, it shall give the purchaser all the debtor's right, title, and interest to the real estate sold.
12 V.S.A. § 2791
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2791. Return of execution

§ 2791. Return of execution|The officer commencing proceedings for sale on execution of real estate or the right to collect and receive rents, issues, and profits thereof, may make such sale, although the return day of the execution has passed, and shall return the execution within five business days after the sale. A failure to make such return shall not affect the purchaser's title to the property. (Amended 2017, No. 11, § 16.)
12 V.S.A. § 2792
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2792. Form of deed; costs

§ 2792. Form of deed; costs|The deed executed by the officer of lands sold on execution, shall be taxed as a part of the costs on the execution at one dollar, and shall be substantially in the following form: KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That, whereas, an execution against .................... of  .................... in the county of  ........................... at the suit of  ...................... of  .................... in the county of ....................... was by me,  .................... sheriff of the county of   ...................., on the  .......... day of  ................... 19  ...., levied on (here describe the premises); and whereas, on the  ........ day of ......................... 19  ...., all the estate, right, title, interest and property of said  .................... in the premises aforesaid were by me, the said .................... sold at public auction for the satisfaction of such execution, to  ...................... of  .................... in the county of  ..............., who was the highest bidder, for the sum of  .................. dollars, which the said  .................... has since fully paid to me; Now, by force and virtue of the law in such cases made and provided, I, the said  ……..................................., in consideration of the sum of money paid unto me as aforesaid, do, by these presents, bargain, sell and assign, and set over unto the said  ........................... heirs and assigns forever, all the estate,  right, title, interest, property and inheritance of the said ...................... in and to such premises and appurtenances at the time of the levy thereon (or of the attachment, as the case may be). To have and to hold such premises and appurtenances to the said  ...................., heirs and assigns forever.In witness, etc.
12 V.S.A. § 2793
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2793. Form where attached on original writ

§ 2793. Form where attached on original writ|When such real estate was attached on the original writ, the officer shall insert in the deed of sale the time of such attachment and vary the deed accordingly.
12 V.S.A. § 2794
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2794. Execution upon real estate; homestead a part

§ 2794. Execution upon real estate; homestead a part|When an execution is levied upon real estate of which the debtor's homestead is a part or upon that part of a homestead in excess of $125,000.00 in value, the location and boundaries of the homestead shall be ascertained before the sale and set out in the manner provided for the levy of execution upon real estate whereof a homestead forms a part. (Amended 1967, No. 287 (Adj. Sess.), § 6, eff. July 1, 1968; 1995, No. 186 (Adj. Sess.), § 24f, eff. Jan. 1, 1997; 2013, No. 194 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. June 17, 2014.)
12 V.S.A. § 2795
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2795. When encumbered by mortgage

§ 2795. When encumbered by mortgage|When a right of redemption in mortgaged lands is taken and sold on execution, the officer shall ascertain and state at the time of sale the value of the encumbrance, or the amount of the mortgage debt, when it can be ascertained, and state the same in his or her return on the execution.
12 V.S.A. § 2796
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 12 - Court Procedure|Chapter 111 - Levy of Execution|§ 2796. Redemption- Bond; writ of possession; accounting by purchaser for rents and profits

§ 2796. Redemption- Bond; writ of possession; accounting by purchaser for rents and profits|When real estate is sold on execution, the debtor or person claiming under him or her may redeem the same at any time within six months from the date of such sale. He or she shall file a bond within 14 days after such sale with the clerk of the court or magistrate who issued such execution, to the purchaser, in a penal sum that the clerk or magistrate shall order, conditioned in case he or she does not redeem the property to pay the purchaser the fair rents and profits of such premises and commit no waste on the same, which bond shall be approved by the clerk or magistrate. When the debtor fails to file the bond as provided for in this section, the purchaser may have his or her writ of possession from the clerk or magistrate, and may enter and take possession and manage such real estate in a good husbandlike manner. If the defendant in such action shall redeem the same, the purchaser shall account for the fair value of the rents and profits thereof, until the same shall be redeemed. (Amended 2017, No. 11, § 17.)