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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 11 Sec. 567

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

§ 567. Effect of trust instrument

The provisions of sections 565 and 566 of this title shall not apply to any trust to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction shall determine that such application would be contrary to the terms of the instrument governing such trust and that the same may not properly be changed to conform to such sections. (1971, No. 112, § 7.)