Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 27 > Chapter 3 > Subchapter 2 - Conveyance of Homestead

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• 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.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Employee: means an individual who is:

• Employer: means a person who is required to furnish unemployment insurance coverage pursuant to 21 Vt. See
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• FTE: means the number of employees expressed as the number of employee hours worked during a calendar quarter divided by 520. See
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Health care coverage: shall mean any private or public plan that includes both hospital and physician services. See
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Month: shall mean a calendar month and "year" shall mean a calendar year and be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Part-time employee: shall mean an employee who works for an employer for fewer than 30 hours a week or fewer than 390 hours in a calendar quarter. See
• 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
• Probate: Proving a will
• Psychiatric disability: means an impairment of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory that limits one or more major life activities but does not include intellectual disability. See
• 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
• Seasonal employee: means an employee who:

• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
• 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