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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 14 Sec. 1068

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • 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
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.

§ 1068. Surety may intervene and appeal

Upon the settlement of the account of an executor, administrator, or other person, a person liable as surety in respect to the account, upon motion, may intervene as a party and may appeal as provided in other cases of appeals from the decision of the Probate Division of the Superior Court. Before the appeal is allowed, the surety shall give a bond to secure the principal from damages and costs and to secure the intervening damages and costs to the adverse party. (Amended 1985, No. 144 (Adj. Sess.), § 57; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 238a, eff. Feb. 1, 2011; 2017, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 6.)