What Lies Beneath
Fascinating clerks give rise to even more
divergent recording methods. As we have
seen, each office seemed to have file locations as unique as the clerks themselves.
While the above illustrative and amusing
tales illustrate the variety and spice of life,
these spices make for recipes of disaster
when good legal practice depends upon
making valid title searches.
While most are familiar with the term
“day book,” almost every attorney who
has performed a title search in Vermont
knows that “day” is apparently a relative
term. Some “day” books encompass days,
months, or even years. Members recall “recently” recorded and unrecorded “to be
recorded” documents being kept in no
particular priority in pigeonholes in a roll
top desk, in a shopping cart, in six to eight
milk cr