Vermont Statutes Title 12 Sec. 2362
Current as of: 2023 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 12 Sec. 2362
- 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.
- 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.
- Justice: when applied to a person, other than a Justice of the Supreme Court, shall mean a justice of the peace for the county for which he or she is elected or appointed. See
- Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
- Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
§ 2362. Recognizance on petition to enter an appeal
A petition to enter an appeal shall not issue until a Justice of the Supreme Court, the presiding judge, or a district judge of the court having jurisdiction of the same, as the case may be, has taken sufficient security by way of recognizance to the adverse party, which shall be minuted on the summons or petition, conditioned that, if the petitioner fails to prosecute his or her petition to effect or finally to recover in the action, he or she will pay the adverse party the intervening damages and costs accruing to him or her by reason of such petition. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 54, eff. March 29, 1972.)