Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 33 > Chapter 46 - Building Bright Futures Council

• Apartment: means a part of the property intended for any type of independent use, including commercial uses. See
• Association of owners: means all of the apartment or site owners acting as a group in accordance with the bylaws and declaration. See
• Building: means a building containing two or more apartments, or two or more buildings containing a total of two or more apartments, and comprising a part of the property. See
• Common expenses: include :

• Common profits: means the balance of all income, rents, profits, and revenues from the common areas and facilities remaining after the deduction of the common expenses. See
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Declaration: means the instrument by which the property is made subject to this chapter, as herein provided, and as the instrument may be amended from time to time. 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}
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• 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.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Limited common areas and facilities: means those common areas and facilities designated in the declaration as reserved for use of a certain apartment or apartments or sites to the exclusion of other apartments or sites. See
• Mobile home park: has the meaning given in 10 V. See
• Month: shall mean a calendar month and "year" shall mean a calendar year and be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, trustee, or other legal entity. See
• Property: includes the land, the building or site and all improvements and structures thereon all owned in fee simple absolute or any other estate in real property recognized by law and all easements, rights, and appurtenances thereto, and all articles of personal property intended for use in connection therewith, which have been or are intended to be made subject to this chapter. See
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Site: means the spatial location occupied or to be occupied by a mobile home, including all utilities and amenities appurtenant to the location such as piping, wiring, plants, platforms or supports, lights, walls, and other improvements but not including the land on which the site is located. See
• 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