§ 601. Requirements
(a) Any person who holds an unbroken chain of title of record to any interest in real estate for 40 years, shall at the end of that period be deemed to have a marketable record title to the interest, subject only to such claims to the interest and such defects of title as are not extinguished or barred under this chapter, and such interests, limitations or encumbrances as are inherent in the provisions and limitations contained in the muniments of which the chain of record title is formed which have been recorded during the 40-year period.
(b) For purposes of this section and sections 602 and 603 of this title, “person” shall mean and include any natural person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, executor, administrator, guardian, trustee, fiduciary, or any other legal entity, excepting the state of Vermont, political subdivisions of the state, and the United States. (Added 1969, No. 235 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Chapter 5 - Conveyance of Real Estate
§ 302. Effect of oral conveyance
§ 303. Trusts concerning realty
§ 304. Assignment of lease to be by deed
§ 305. Conveyances effected through power of attorney
§ 341. Requirements generally; recording
§ 342. Acknowledgment and recording required
§ 343. Conveyance of wife’s real estate
§ 344. Conveyances of joint interests when husband under disability
§ 345. Conveyances of wife’s realty in which disabled husband has an interest
§ 346. Conveyances by corporation
§ 347. Validity of deeds executed under prior law
§ 348. Instruments concerning real property validated
§ 349. Conveyance to grantor and others
§ 350. Change in name or status of owner of real estate
§ 351. Estates and trusts; conveyances, satisfactions, grants, and releases
§ 371. Proving execution when grantor dies or leaves state
§ 372. Proceedings when grantor refuses to acknowledge—Summons
§ 374. Hearing and certificate
§ 375. Witnesses dead or out of state
§ 378. Effect of recording unacknowledged deed
§ 401. Index of deeds by county clerk; penalty
§ 402. Record in county clerk’s office
§ 403. Records when lands lie in unorganized place
§ 404. Lost instruments affecting property titles; copy recorded in another town
§ 405. Vendor to record his or her title on request
§ 406. Proceedings upon vendor’s refusal
§ 407. Commitment of vendor for refusal
§ 408. Recording subordination of liens
§ 409. Record of assignment by landlord
§ 441. Manner of mortgaging machinery
§ 442. Attachment and sale of machinery mortgaged with real estate
§ 462. By acknowledgment of payment
§ 464. Liability of mortgagee for failure to provide payoff statements and refusal to discharge
§ 464a. Discharge by licensed attorney
§ 467. When death of mortgagee not established
§ 468. —Manner of discharge by trustee or administrator
§ 469. Mortgagee corporation whose charter has expired
§ 470. Validation of mortgage discharge on one- to four-family residential property
§ 501. Reformation of interests violating rule against perpetuities
§ 502. Application of subchapter
§ 503. Effect on prior interests
§ 541. Deeds of lands held adversely
§ 543. Highways as encumbrances
§ 544. Energy devices based on renewable resources
§ 545. Covenants, conditions, and restrictions of substantial public interest
§ 546. Racially and religiously restrictive covenants in deeds prohibited
§ 602. Unbroken chain; conditions and suspension
§ 603. Successors in interest; notices of claims, filing for record
§ 605. Contents of notice of claim; recording
§ 607. Time-shares; right to cancel
§ 609. Conveyance of standing timber
§ 610. Housing subsidy covenants; enforceability
§ 611. Remediation certificates
§ 614. Transfer of stormwater discharge permits to a municipality
§ 616. Groundwater source testing; disclosure of informational material
§ 623. Validity of electronic documents
§ 625. Standards and best practices
§ 626. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act