Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 27 > Chapter 3 > Subchapter 3 - Severance and Sale of Homestead

• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Covered wages: means wages paid to an employee by an employer. See
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Employee: means an individual who receives payments with respect to services performed for an employer from which the employer is required to withhold Vermont income tax pursuant to chapter 151, subchapter 4 of this title. See
• Employer: means a person who employs one or more employees who is required to withhold income tax from wages paid to the employees pursuant to chapter 151, subchapter 4 of this title. See
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Self-employed individual: means an individual who earns self- employment income. See
• sworn: shall include affirmed. See
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Wages: means payments that are included in the definition of wages set forth in 26 U. See