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
002
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PERSONAL PROPERTY, LEVY, AND SALE
(Cite as: 12 V.S.A. § 2736)
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§ 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.