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The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.

NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.

Title 27: Property

Chapter 005: Conveyance of Real Estate

  • Subchapter 001: MANNER OF CONVEYING INTERESTS IN OR AFFECTING REALTY
  •    § 301. Manner of conveying

  •    § 302. Effect of oral conveyance

  •    § 303. Trusts concerning realty

  •    § 304. Assignment of lease to be by deed

  •    § 305. Conveyances effected through power of attorney

  •    § 306. Evidence

  •    § 307. Vendor's liens

  •    § 308. Mines and quarries

  •    § 309. Proration of taxes


  • Subchapter 002: EXECUTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
  •    § 341. Requirements generally; recording

  •    § 342. Acknowledgment and recording required

  •    § 343. Conveyance of wife's real estate

  •    § 344. Conveyances of joint interests when husband under disability

  •    § 345. Conveyances of wife's realty in which disabled husband has an interest

  •    § 346. Conveyances by corporation

  •    § 347. Validity of deeds executed under prior law

  •    § 348. Instruments concerning real property validated

  •    § 349. Conveyance to grantor and others

  •    § 350. Change in name or status of owner of real estate

  •    § 351. Estates and trusts; conveyances, satisfactions, grants, and releases

  •    § 352. Repealed. 2009, No. 20, § 27.

  •    § 371. Proving execution when grantor dies or leaves State

  •    § 372. Proceedings when grantor refuses to acknowledge-summons

  •    § 373. Notice

  •    § 374. Hearing and certificate

  •    § 375. Witnesses dead or out of State

  •    §§ 376, 377. Repealed. 1967, No. 231 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Jan. 24, 1968.

  •    § 377. Repealed. 1973, No. 249 (Adj. Sess.), § 111, eff. April 9, 1974.

  •    § 378. Effect of recording unacknowledged deed

  •    § 379. Repealed. 2017, No. 160 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, effective July 1, 2019.

  •    § 380. Disclosure of information; conveyance of real estate


  • Subchapter 003: RECORDING
  •    § 401. Index of deeds by county clerk; penalty

  •    § 402. Record in county clerk's office

  •    § 403. Records when lands lie in unorganized place

  •    § 404. Lost instruments affecting property titles; copy recorded in another town

  •    § 405. Vendor to record title on request

  •    § 406. Proceedings upon vendor's refusal

  •    § 407. Commitment of vendor for refusal

  •    § 408. Recording subordination of liens

  •    § 409. Record of assignment by landlord

  •    § 410. Lien priorities


  • Subchapter 004: MORTGAGES
  •    § 441. Manner of mortgaging machinery

  •    § 442. Attachment and sale of machinery mortgaged with real estate

  •    § 461. By entry on record

  •    § 462. By acknowledgment of payment

  •    § 463. By separate instrument

  •    § 464. Liability of mortgagee for failure to provide payoff statements and refusal to discharge

  •    § 464a. Discharge by licensed attorney

  •    § 465. When mortgagee dead

  •    § 466. Notice to parties

  •    § 467. When death of mortgagee not established

  •    § 468. Manner of Discharge by Trustee or Administrator

  •    § 469. Mortgagee corporation whose charter has expired

  •    § 470. Validation of mortgage discharge on one- to four-family residential property


  • Subchapter 005: PERPETUITIES
  •    § 501. Reformation of interests violating rule against perpetuities

  •    § 502. Application of subchapter

  •    § 503. Effect on prior interests


  • Subchapter 006: MISCELLANEOUS
  •    § 541. Deeds of lands held adversely

  •    § 542. Fraudulent deeds

  •    § 543. Highways as encumbrances

  •    § 544. Energy devices based on renewable resources

  •    § 545. Covenants, conditions, and restrictions of substantial public interest

  •    § 546. Racially and religiously restrictive covenants in deeds prohibited


  • Subchapter 007: MARKETABLE RECORD TITLE
  •    § 601. Requirements

  •    § 602. Unbroken chain; conditions and suspension

  •    § 603. Successors in interest; notices of claim; filing for record

  •    § 604. Failure to file notice

  •    § 605. Contents of notice of claim; recording

  •    § 606. Limitation of actions

  •    § 607. Time-shares; right to cancel

  •    § 608. [Reserved for future use.]

  •    § 609. Conveyance of standing timber

  •    § 610. Housing subsidy covenants; enforceability

  •    § 611. Remediation certificates

  •    § 612. Municipal permits

  •    § 613. Repealed. 2011, No. 91 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.

  •    § 614. Transfer of stormwater discharge permits to a municipality

  •    § 615. Wetland permit

  •    § 616. Groundwater source testing; disclosure of informational material

  •    § 617. Disclosure of class 4 road


  • Subchapter 008: UNIFORM REAL PROPERTY ELECTRONIC RECORDING ACT
  •    § 621. Short title

  •    § 622. Definitions

  •    § 623. Validity of electronic documents

  •    § 624. Recording of documents

  •    § 625. Standards and best practices

  •    § 626. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act


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