Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 18 > Chapter 121 > Subchapter 5 - Ownership of Cemetery Lots

• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Cemetery: means any plot of ground used or intended to be used for the burial or permanent disposition of the remains of the human dead in a grave, a mausoleum, a columbarium, a vault, or other receptacle. See
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living. See
• Department: means the Department of Health. See
• Developmental disability: means a severe, chronic disability of a person that is manifested before the person reaches 18 years of age and results in:

• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Dower: A widow
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Family: means a group of individuals that includes a person with a developmental disability and that:

• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• 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.
• Permit: means any permit or license issued pursuant to this title. See
• Person: means any individual, company, corporation, association, partnership, the U. See
• Person with a developmental disability: means a person who is a resident of Vermont and who has a developmental disability. See
• Probate: Proving a will
• said: when used by way of reference to a person or thing shall apply to the same person or thing last mentioned. See
• Service: means support or service provided, funded, or coordinated by the Department. 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
• System of care plan: means the plan adopted pursuant to section 8725 of this title and that describes funding and services to be provided to people with developmental disabilities and their families. See
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• 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