Vermont Correction Deed (Individual Grantor and Individual Grantee)

A wrong lot number, a misspelled name, or a bad recording reference in a recorded deed stays on the public record until a corrective instrument answers it. This Vermont correction deed re-executes a conveyance between one individual grantor and one individual grantee: the person who signed the original deed signs again, the error is named on the face of the instrument, and the corrected terms go on record in the same town land records that hold the mistake.

A second signing that repairs the record

The deed identifies the prior instrument by type, execution date, recording date, and volume and page, then states the error and the corrected information in separate entries. Its operative section grants, conveys, and confirms the property to the same grantee with the correction in place, and it states that the deed is executed without additional consideration, adds no covenant the prior deed did not state, and conveys no interest beyond the one the prior deed conveyed. Both instruments remain of record after recording; a later title examiner reads them together, with the deed of correction supplying the accurate terms.

What a corrective deed can carry, and what it cannot

Vermont Title Standard 4.1 draws the boundary. A grantor who has conveyed by an effective and unambiguous deed cannot use a corrective deed to make a substantial change in the name of the grantee, decrease the size of the premises or the extent of the estate granted, impose a condition or limitation on the interest granted, or otherwise diminish the grant of the prior deed. Clerical slips sit inside that line: a transposed lot number, an omitted middle initial or suffix, an incorrect source-of-title citation, a misstated town. Changes to the transaction itself sit outside it, and those take a new conveyance in which the affected parties join, or a court order reforming the instrument.

One grantor and one grantee

The form names exactly one individual grantor and one individual grantee, with a single signature line and one notary acknowledgment certificate in the Vermont statutory short form. An owner whose warranty deed misspelled the buyer's name, or whose quitclaim deed carried the wrong parcel number, presents the two-party pattern this configuration describes: the same grantor and grantee as the recorded deed, with the grantor re-executing to the same grantee. A prior deed signed by two or more owners, a business entity or trustee grantor, or a correction that could reduce what the grantee received presents a different signing pattern than the single grantor signature this form carries.

Recording with the town clerk, and the exempt transfer tax return

Vermont records deeds by town or city rather than by county, and a correction deed returns to the same municipal land records that hold the prior deed, at the statewide fee of $15.00 per page under 32 V.S.A. § 1671. Every deed delivered for recording travels with a completed Vermont Property Transfer Tax Return, Form PTT-172; under 32 V.S.A. § 9608 the town clerk cannot record a deed without it. A transfer that, without additional consideration, confirms or corrects a transfer previously recorded is exempt from the property transfer tax under 32 V.S.A. § 9603(4), and the return is still filed, with the exemption entered on it, so the corrected deed records without a second tax. The grantor signs and acknowledges the deed before a notary public under 27 V.S.A. § 341, and the printed-name line under the signature answers 32 V.S.A. § 1405.

The package contains the fillable correction deed form, a completed example showing a Milton, Vermont fact pattern in which a lot number is corrected, and a guide that walks through each section of the form, the notarization, and the town recording process, including the transfer tax return and its correction exemption. The materials are informational and are not legal advice; a Vermont attorney can apply these rules to a particular title and error.