Vermont Statutes
Chapter 25 - Process
§ 736. Officer’s duties and liabilities

§ 736. Officer’s duties and liabilities
When property is taken by an officer from the possession of a specially appointed person or his or her receiptor, the officer shall be subject to the duties and liabilities relating to the property and arising by virtue of the previous attachment or taking in execution and shall be responsible for the property to the plaintiff or creditor having the prior lien thereon by virtue of the attachment, as the specially appointed person or his or her receiptor would have been if the property had not been taken from his or her possession. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 42, eff. March 29, 1972.)

Structure Vermont Statutes

Vermont Statutes

Title 12 - Court Procedure

Chapter 25 - Process

§ 654. Signing of original writs

§ 662. Signing citations attached to highway petitions

§ 691. Service of civil or criminal process

§ 692. Deputy sheriffs

§ 693. Constables

§ 694. Disqualifications

§ 695. Receipt for process

§ 696. Sheriffs’ duties to receive, execute, and return writs

§ 697. Sheriffs’ liabilities

§ 698. Special deputations

§ 699. Removal or resignation of sheriff

§ 700. Completion of service of process or foreclosure of mortgage or lien

§ 701. Summons

§ 731. Indifferent person, appointment of

§ 732. Power of specially appointed person

§ 733. Fees

§ 734. Property taken from specially appointed person by officer

§ 735. Delivery of writ; return; completion of service

§ 736. Officer’s duties and liabilities

§ 780. Indorsement of fees

§ 814. Partnerships and unincorporated associations—suit in firm name; service of process

§ 815. Nonabatement on change in officers or members

§ 851. Service on Secretary of State

§ 852. Fees; mailing of copy to corporation

§ 853. Doing business by particular companies without designating process agent; penalty

§ 855. Doing business as appointment of process agent

§ 856. Service of process

§ 857. Continuance; costs

§ 858. Alternative means of service

§ 891. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles as process agent

§ 892. Service on Commissioner; mailing copies; fees

§ 893. Continuances; costs

§ 913. Effect of service outside the State