Vermont Lien Release
The Lien You Are Releasing
Pull your stamped copy of the lien — everything on this page is on it. If the details here do not match the instrument on record, the release does not release it, and no one at the counter will catch that for you.
This instrument says the debt is paid.
Vermont has no statute prescribing this instrument, so what it says is what binds you. Signing it while money is still owed puts a false statement on the public record and gives away the security you filed to protect. If you have been paid part of it, this is not the document you want — talk to a construction attorney about what is.
Where this gets filed: Town Clerk, land records. The clerk's office of the town where the real estate is situated — the same land records the memorandum was recorded in under 9 V.S.A. § 1923.
None. Chapter 51 sets no deadline and provides no penalty or fee-shifting. The mortgagee-liability provision at 27 V.S.A. § 464 is mortgage-specific by its terms; applying it to a contractor's lien claimant is unsettled.