Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 9 > Chapter 51 > Subchapter 1 - Contractors' Liens for Labor or Material

• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Ballast: means a device used with an electric discharge lamp to obtain necessary circuit conditions (voltage, current, and waveform) for starting and operating the lamp. See
• Body spray: means a shower device for spraying water onto a bather other than from the overhead position. See
• Commercial steam cooker: means a device with one or more food-steaming compartments in which the energy in the steam is transferred to the food by direct contact. See
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Public Service. See
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Compressor: means a machine or apparatus that converts different types of energy into the potential energy of gas pressure for displacement and compression of gaseous media to any higher-pressure values above atmospheric pressure and has a pressure ratio at full-load operating pressure greater than 1. See
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Faucet: means a lavatory faucet, kitchen faucet, metering faucet, public lavatory faucet, or replacement aerator for a lavatory, public lavatory, or kitchen faucet. See
• Fees: shall mean earnings due for official services, aside from salaries or per diem compensation. See
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Handheld shower: means a showerhead that can be held or fixed in place for the purpose of spraying water onto a bather and that is connected to a flexible hose. See
• Hot and cold unit: means a water cooler that dispenses both hot and cold water. See
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Metal halide lamp: means a high intensity discharge lamp in which the major portion of the light is produced by radiation of metal halides and their products of dissociation, possibly in combination with metallic vapors. See
• Metering faucet: means a fitting that, when turned on, will gradually shut itself off over a period of several seconds. See
• mobile home: means :

• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Municipality: shall include a city, town, town school district, incorporated school or fire district or incorporated village, and all other governmental incorporated units. See
• Person: shall include any natural person, corporation, municipality, the State of Vermont or any department, agency, or subdivision of the State, and any partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. See
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plumbing fixture: means an exchangeable device that connects to a plumbing system to deliver and drain away water and waste. See
• Portable air conditioner: means a portable encased assembly, other than a packaged terminal air conditioner, room air conditioner, or dehumidifier, that includes a source of refrigeration; delivers cooled, conditioned air to an enclosed space; and is powered by single-phase electric current. See
• Public lavatory faucet: means a fitting intended to be installed in nonresidential bathrooms that are exposed to walk-in traffic. See
• real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein, and pews or slips in places of public worship shall be treated as real estate. See
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Replacement aerator: means an aerator sold as a replacement, separate from the faucet to which it is intended to be attached. See
• said: when used by way of reference to a person or thing shall apply to the same person or thing last mentioned. See
• Showerhead: means an accessory to a supply fitting for spraying water onto a bather, typically from an overhead position. See
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Storage-type: means that a water cooler stores thermally conditioned water in a tank and the conditioned water is available instantaneously. See
• Town: shall include city and wards or precincts therein; "selectboard members" and "board of civil authority" shall extend to and include the mayor and aldermen of cities; "trustees" shall extend to and include bailiffs of incorporated villages; and the laws applicable to the inhabitants and officers of towns shall be applicable to the inhabitants and similar officers of all municipal corporations. See
• Transformer: means a device that consists of two or more coils of insulated wire and that is designed to transfer alternating current by electromagnetic induction from one coil to another, in order to change the original voltage or current value. See
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Urinal: means a plumbing fixture that receives only liquid body waste and conveys the waste through a trap into a drainage system. See
• Water cooler: means a freestanding device that consumes energy to cool or heat potable water, or both. See