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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 12 Sec. 3135

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • 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
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

§ 3135. Death of trustee—Attachment not discharged; liability of representative

When a person summoned as trustee in his or her own right dies before the judgment recovered by the plaintiff is satisfied, the goods, effects, and credits in his or her hands at the time of the attachment shall remain bound thereby, and his or her executor or administrator shall be liable therefor, as if the process had been originally served on him or her.