Vermont § 1161 - General index
Full text of Vermont Vermont Statutes Online § 1161 — General index, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 1161. General index
- (a)(1) A town clerk shall keep a general index of transactions affecting the title to real
estate wherein he or she shall enter in one column, in alphabetical order, the name
of the grantor to the grantee and, in a parallel column, the name of the grantee from
the grantor, of every deed, conveyance, mortgage, lease, or other instrument affecting
the title to real estate, and each writ of attachment, notice of lien, or other instrument
evidencing or giving notice of an encumbrance on real estate which is filed or recorded
in the town clerk’s office, with the name of the book, volume, or other manner of
recording and the page of record in the following form: Book Grantor Page Book Grantee Page to from Grantee Grantor 1 A. to B. 1 1 B. from A. 1 (2) If the instrument is executed on behalf of or to convey the interest of another party,
the same shall be indexed in the name of the other party as grantor. In case the instrument
is executed by more than one grantor and to more than one grantee, the name of each
grantor and each grantee shall be indexed. When the party is a natural person the
name shall be indexed under the first letter of such person’s surname, and when the
party is a corporation the name shall be indexed under the first letter of the first
word of its name disregarding articles and initials. For purposes of this section,
a defendant against whose property a writ of attachment is filed or a person against
whose property a lien is asserted shall be considered a grantor, and a plaintiff filing
a writ or a person asserting a lien shall be considered a grantee. The general index
may be kept electronically.
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