Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 26 > Chapter 103 > Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• Acknowledgment: means a declaration by an individual before a notary public that the individual has signed a record for the purpose stated in the record and, if the record is signed in a representative capacity, that the individual signed the record with proper authority and signed it as the act of the individual or entity identified in the record. See
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See
• Electronic signature: means an electronic symbol, sound, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by an individual with the intent to sign the record. See
• Estate: means the gross estate of a decedent as determined for the purpose of federal estate tax and the estate tax payable to this State. See
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiduciary: means executor, administrator of any description, and trustee. See
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• 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.
• In a representative capacity: means acting as:

• 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.
• Notarial act: means an act, whether performed with respect to a tangible or an electronic record, that a notary public may perform under the law of this State. See
• Notary public: means an individual commissioned to perform a notarial act by the Office. See
• Oath: shall include affirmation where by law an affirmation may be substituted. See
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Office: means the Office of Professional Regulation within the Office of the Secretary of State. See
• Official stamp: means a physical image affixed to or embossed on a tangible record or an electronic image attached to or logically associated with an electronic record. 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, business trust, statutory trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See
• Person: means any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, corporation, government, political subdivision, governmental agency, or local governmental agency. See
• Person interested in the estate: means any person entitled to receive, or who has received, from a decedent or by reason of the death of a decedent any property or interest therein included in the decedent's estate. See
• Probate: Proving a will
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See
• Remotely located individual: means an individual who is not in the physical presence of the notary public who performs a notarial act under section 5379 of this chapter. See
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:

• Signature: means a tangible symbol or an electronic signature that evidences the signing of a record. See
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U. See
• State: means any state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Tax: means the federal estate tax and the estate tax payable to this State and interest and penalties imposed in addition to the tax. See
• 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
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Verification on oath or affirmation: means a declaration, made by an individual on oath or affirmation before a notary public, that a statement in a record is true. See