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Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 12, § 971 (2026)

Repealed. 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 237, eff. March 29, 1972.

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Subchapter 001 : ACTIONS

(Cite as: 12 V.S.A. § 971)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases, 1961–1978 · leading case: Koerber v. Middlesex Coll., 383 A.2d 1054 (Vt. 1978).
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Koerber v. Middlesex Coll., 383 A.2d 1054 (Vt. 1978). “261, § 1 (codified at 12 V.S.A. § 971 (repealed 1971)). V.R.C.P.”
O'BRIEN v. Comstock Foods, Inc., 212 A.2d 69 (Vt. 1965). “12 V.S.A. § 971. No action is to be defeated for nonjoinder or misjoinder of parties or causes of action.”
Neverett v. Towne, 179 A.2d 583 (Vt. 1962). “The new practice act (12 V.S.A. §971 et seq.) does not allow a complaint that is actually in contract to be commenced by a writ issued as a capias with the arrest of the defendant thereon, and a court would be without jurisdiction of such process.”
Malloy v. Lane Constr. Corp., 194 A.2d 398 (Vt. 1963). “Remedies could be reached at common law only by molding the phrasing of a claim of wrong to the language of one of the few recognized forms of action, evolved from the special writs that English sovereigns had consented to issue.”
Abbadessa v. Tegu, 173 A.2d 581 (Vt. 1961). “Since the enactment of 12 V.S.A. §971, creating a single form of civil action, the mode of procedure pursued for the recovery of rent is relatively unimportant.”
Jobidon v. Lussier, 204 A.2d 88 (Vt. 1964). “12 V.S.A. §971. However, such Act does not enlarge the incidents attending the various forms of action which existed prior to April 2, 1915, such as arrest of the body.”
Shaw v. E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Co., 204 A.2d 159 (Vt. 1964). “The 1959 enactment reached further by providing: “All persons consenting thereto may join in one action as plaintiffs if they assert any rights to relief, jointly, severally, or in the alternative with the respect to or arising out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series…”
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