Vermont Statutes Title 12 Sec. 2137
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 12 Sec. 2137
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
- 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
§ 2137. Costs exceeding damages
Unless the plaintiff recovers more than $7.00 damages in actions for trespass on the freehold, other than those in which the right of title or possession of real estate comes in question, actions for slanderous words, actions for assault and battery and actions for false imprisonment, commenced before a District or Superior Court, he or she shall not recover more costs than damages. In such actions for trespass on the freehold or for assault and battery, if the court is of opinion that the trespass was willful and malicious, and so certifies, the plaintiff shall recover full costs. (Amended 1965, No. 194, § 10, eff. July 1, 1965, operative Feb. 1, 1967; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974.)