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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GENERALLY; ACTIONS IN WHICH AVAILABLE; PERSONS AND PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TRUSTEE PROCESS
(Cite as: 12 V.S.A. § 3021)
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§ 3021. Debts reduced by sums owing defendant’s workmen
In all cases where a principal defendant is indebted to other persons for work done
in the performance of a contract out of which the trustee’s indebtedness arises, there
shall be exempt from the trustee process, on an action brought for the recovery of
debts not incurred as above stated, such sum or sums as may be due from the principal
defendant to such other persons for work done in the prosecution of such contract.
The principal defendant shall cause to be summoned as claimants before the court in
which an action so brought is pending, all such other persons to whom he or she is
indebted for work so done.