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: 27 V.S.A. § 705)
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§ 705. Disposition upon death of noncorporate grantee
Real estate heretofore granted, devised, or demised, for the purpose mentioned in
section 704 of this title, to a person in an ecclesiastical office or orders shall be deemed to be held in
trust for the benefit of the congregation or society using the same. Unless previously
conveyed to a corporation, as provided in section 704 of this title, the real estate, upon the death of the person in whom the legal title was vested
on November 17, 1856, shall vest in the religious corporation formed by the congregation
or religious society occupying and enjoying the real estate, if such a corporation,
organized according to law, is in existence at the time of the death. If the congregation
or society is not incorporated, the title of the real estate shall vest in the State. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 343, eff. July 1, 2023.)