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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 14 Sec. 1737

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • 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

§ 1737. When estate cannot be divided without injury; to be sold; procedure

When the real estate of a decedent, or any part of it greater than the share in it of any one of the heirs, cannot be divided without prejudice or inconvenience to the owners, proceedings may be had for the assignment or sale of the real estate in the Probate Division of the Superior Court. (Amended 1985, No. 144 (Adj. Sess.), § 88; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 238a, eff. Feb. 1, 2011; 2017, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 10.)