The Vermont Statutes Online
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Title 12 : Court Procedure
Chapter 121 : Trustee Process
Subchapter 001 : Generally; Actions in Which Available; Persons and Property Subject to Trustee Process
(Cite as: 12 V.S.A. § 3012)-
§ 3012. Tort actions; arrest
(a) [Repealed.]
(b) A person against whom an action of tort is commenced by trustee process shall not be arrested or imprisoned on an execution issued on a judgment recovered in such action until final entry has been made with respect to all persons summoned as trustees, and until any judgment entered against any trustee has been satisfied or an execution issued thereon has been returned unsatisfied. However, execution against the body of the principal defendant may be issued within a year and a day after the latest final entry with respect to any person summoned as trustee. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 237, eff. March 29, 1972.)
