The Vermont Statutes Online
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.
Subchapter
001
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CONTRACTORS' LIENS FOR LABOR OR MATERIAL
(Cite as: 9 V.S.A. § 1926)
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§ 1926. Death of landowner; effect on lien
When the owner of real estate dies after a lien has been recorded, or dies pending
an action brought against him or her to enforce a lien on such real estate, the action
or lien shall not abate or be affected by the death of such owner, but the executor
or administrator of the deceased shall be cited in and the action shall proceed to
final judgment against the representative of the deceased defendant. Such real estate
shall be holden for the amount due upon such judgment, with the cost of the copy of
the record of the judgment and recording, as if it had been mortgaged for the payment
of the same, in like manner as if the deceased defendant were alive. Such lien shall
not be enforced to the diminution of a right or interest given by law to the surviving
husband or wife, as the case may be, or to the children of such deceased person.