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
004
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MORTGAGES
(Cite as: 27 V.S.A. § 462)
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§ 462. By acknowledgment of payment
Mortgages may also be discharged by the mortgagee or by his or her executor, administrator,
assignee, attorney at law, or attorney acting under a duly executed and recorded power
of attorney, acknowledging payment thereof by an entry on the mortgage deed, signing
the same in the presence of one or more witnesses, which entry, upon being recorded
on the margin of the record of such mortgage in the record of deeds, shall discharge
such mortgage and bar all actions brought thereon.