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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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 14 V.S.A. § 1402)
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§ 1402. Sum recovered paid to person entitled thereto
When an executor or administrator commences or prosecutes an action founded on a debt,
demand, or claim for damages, and is only a trustee of the claim for the use of another
person, and where the claim, although prosecuted in the name of the executor or administrator,
belongs to another person, the sum or property recovered shall not be assets in the
hands of the executor or administrator, but shall be paid over to the person entitled
to them, after deducting or being paid the costs and expenses of the prosecution. (Amended 2017, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)