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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 27 Sec. 402

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Town: shall include city and wards or precincts therein; "selectboard members" and "board of civil authority" shall extend to and include the mayor and aldermen of cities; "trustees" shall extend to and include bailiffs of incorporated villages; and the laws applicable to the inhabitants and officers of towns shall be applicable to the inhabitants and similar officers of all municipal corporations. See

§ 402. Record in county clerk’s office

A purchaser of lands, in addition to the record in the town clerk’s office, may cause his or her deed or other conveyance with the certificate of its record in the town clerk’s office to be recorded by the county clerk of the county in which such lands lie, in the book kept for the purpose of recording deeds. If the records of a town in which such deed or conveyance is recorded are destroyed, an attested copy of such deed or other conveyance from the office of such county clerk shall be of the same validity as a copy from the town clerk’s office.