Vermont Statutes Annotated
Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 12, § 502 (2026)
Entry into houses or lands
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Subchapter 002 : ACTIONS LIMITED
(Cite as: 12 V.S.A. § 502)-
§ 502. Entry into houses or lands
A person having right or title of entry into houses or lands shall not enter after 15 years from the time such right of entry accrues.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1998–2024 · leading case: Huntington v. McCarty, 807 A.2d 950 (Vt. 2002).
Huntington v. McCarty, 807 A.2d 950 (Vt. 2002). “The trial court, in a February 1999 order, held the note was barred by the six-year statute of limitations but found the mortgage deed was governed by a fifteen-year statute of limitations, and accordingly, was still enforceable pursuant to 12 V.S.A. § 502. Following the…”
Chittenden v. Waterbury Ctr. Cmty. Church, Inc., 726 A.2d 20 (Vt. 1998). “The trial court relied on this statute in determining that *483 plaintiffs have no claim to the north driveway by adverse possession or prescriptive easement.”
Bosley v. BAC Home Loan Servicing L.P. (In Re Bosley), 446 B.R. 79 (Bankr. D. Vt. 2011). “See 12 VSA § 502 for the 15 year statute of limitations for the re-entry of land.”
state v. Atl. richfield (Vt. Super. Ct. 2023). “That case involved, in relevant * A paragraph in this case summarizes the effect of the pertinent statute of limitations provisions: “Generally, Vermont law applies a fifteen-year limitation period to actions seeking recovery or possession of land, See 12 V.S.A. § 502.…”
Dernier v. U.S. Bank Nat'l Ass'n (D. Vt. 2020). “69, 70 (2002) (citing 12 V.S.A. § 502). Even if the limitations period on enforcing the underlying note has expired, “[t]he mortgage is enforceable beyond the barring of the note because .”
Dernier v. U.S. Bank Nat'l Ass'n (D. Vt. 2024). “12 V.S.A. § 502.” Id. The Huntington court held that although the mortgagee had failed to bring an action on the note within six years, “[t]he mortgage is enforceable beyond the barring of the note because .”
State v. Atl. Richfield Co. (Vt. Super. Ct. 2015). “See 12 V.S.A. § 502. Accordingly, one who seeks to maintain a claim of adverse possession or to assert a prescriptive easement must demonstrate that the use or possession in question has outlasted this limitation period.”
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