The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
004
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MORTGAGES
(Cite as: 27 V.S.A. § 463)
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§ 463. By separate instrument
(a) Mortgages may be discharged by an acknowledgment of satisfaction, executed by the
mortgagee or his or her attorney, executor, administrator, or assigns, which shall
be substantially in the following form:
I hereby certify that the following described mortgage is paid in full and satisfied,
viz: ________ mortgagor to ________ mortgagee, dated ________ 20__ , and recorded in book ___ , page ___ , of the land records of the town of ____________________ .
(b) When such satisfaction is acknowledged before a notary public and recorded, it shall
discharge such mortgage and bar actions brought thereon. (Amended 1973, No. 47, § 2, eff. April 12, 1973; 2003, No. 150 (Adj. Sess.), § 6; 2017, No. 28, § 6, eff. May 10, 2017; 2017, No. 160 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. July 1, 2019.)