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V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1307 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1307. Commitment for refusal to obey writ

 If the person to whom the writ is directed refuses after service to obey the same, the court, upon affidavit, shall issue an attachment against such person, directed to any officer, commanding him forthwith to apprehend such person and bring him immediately before such court or judge; and upon being so brought, he shall be committed to jail until he makes due return to such writ, or is otherwise legally discharged.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1308 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1308. Return

 (a) The person upon whom the writ is served shall state in his return, plainly and unequivocally— (1) whether he has or has not the party in his custody or under his power or restraint; and (2) if he has the party in his custody or power, or under his restraint, the authority and cause of such imprisonment or restraint. (b) If the party is detained by virtue of any writ, warrant, or other written authority, a copy thereof shall be annexed to the return, and the original produced and exhibited to the court on the hearing of such return. (c) If the person upon whom the writ is served had the party in his power or custody or under his restraint at any time prior or subsequent to the date of the writ of habeas corpus but has transferred such custody or restraint to another, the return shall state particularly to whom, at what time and place, for what cause, and by what authority, such transfer took place. (d) The return shall be signed by the person making the same, and, except when such person is a sworn public officer, and makes such return in his official capacity, it shall be verified by his oath.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1309 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1309. Production of body

 The person or officer on whom the writ is served shall bring the body of the party in his custody or under restraint, according to the command of the writ.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1310 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1310. Hearing and examination of return and other matters

 Immediately after the return, the court shall proceed to hear and examine the return, and such other matters as may be properly submitted to its hearing and consideration.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1311 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1311. Procedure for hearing

 The party brought before the court on the return of the writ may deny or controvert any of the material facts or matters set forth in the return, or except to the sufficiency thereof, or allege any fact to show either that his imprisonment or detention is unlawful, or that he is entitled to his discharge. The court shall thereupon proceed in a summary way to hear such proof as may be produced against such imprisonment or detention, or in favor of the same, and to dispose of such party as the justice of the case may require. The court shall have full power and authority to require and compel the attendance of witnesses, by process of subpoena and attachment, and to do and perform all other acts and things necessary to a full and fair hearing and determination of the case.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1312 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1312. Discharge from custody or restraint

 If no legal cause is shown for such imprisonment or restraint, or for the continuation thereof, the court shall discharge such party from the custody or restraint under which he is held.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1313 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1313. Remand of party

 If the time during which such party may be legally detained in custody has not expired, the court shall remand such party if it appears that he is legally detained in custody— (1) by virtue of process issued by a court or judge in a case where such court or judge has jurisdiction; or (2) by virtue of a warrant or final judgment or decree of any competent court of criminal jurisdiction, or of any process issued upon such warrant, judgment or decree.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1314 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1314. Grounds for discharge of prisoner

 If it appears on the return of the writ that the prisoner is in custody by virtue of process from any court or judge or officer thereof, such prisoner may be discharged in any of the following cases, subject to the restriction of section 1313 of this title: (1) When the jurisdiction of such court or officer has been exceeded. (2) When the imprisonment was at first lawful, yet by some act, omission, or event which has taken place afterwards, the party has become entitled to a discharge. (3) When the process is defective in some matter of substance required by law rendering such process void. (4) When the process, though proper in form, has been issued in a case not allowed by law. (5) When the person having custody of the prisoner is not the person allowed by law to detain him. (6) Where the process is not authorized by any order, judgment or decree of any court, nor by any provision of law. (7) Where a party has been committed on a criminal charge without reasonable or probable cause.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1315 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1315. Defect of form in warrant of commitment

 If any person is committed to prison, or is in custody of any officer on any criminal charge, by virtue of any warrant of commitment of a judge, such person shall not be discharged on the ground of any mere defect of form in the warrant of commitment.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1316 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1316. Procedure on commitment for criminal offense

 If it appears to the court, by affidavit or otherwise, or upon the inspection of the process or warrant of commitment, and such other papers in the proceedings as may be shown to the court, that the party is guilty of a criminal offense, or ought not to be discharged, although the charge is defective or unsubstantially set forth in such process or warrant of commitment, the court shall cause the complainant or other necessary witnesses to be subpoenaed to attend at such time as ordered, to testify before the court, and upon the examination he may discharge such prisoner, let him to bail, if the offenses are bailable, or recommit him to custody, as may be just and legal.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1317 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1317. Writ for person committed on criminal charge

 Any person who has been committed on a criminal charge may be brought before a judge on a writ of habeas corpus, if the writ issues out of the proper court.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1318 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1318. Remand to custody

 If a party brought before the court on the return of the writ is not entitled to his discharge, and is not bailed where such bail is allowable, the court shall remand him to custody or place him under the restraint from which he was taken, if the person under whose custody or restraint he was is legally entitled thereto.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1319 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1319. Recommitment to proper custody

 In cases where any party is held under illegal restraint or custody, or any other person is entitled to the restraint or custody of such party, the court may order such party to be committed to the restraint or custody of such person as is by law entitled thereto.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1320 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1320. Custody pending judgment

 Until judgment is given on the return, the court before whom any party may be brought on such writ may commit him to the custody of the Commissioner of Public Safety, or place him in such care or under such custody as his age or circumstances may require.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1321 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1321. Defects in form of writ

 No writ of habeas corpus shall be disobeyed for defect in form, if it sufficiently appears therefrom in whose custody or under whose restraint the party imprisoned or restrained is, the officer or person detaining him, and the court before whom he is to be brought.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1322 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1322. Imprisonment for same cause after discharge

 No person who has been discharged by order of the court upon habeas corpus shall be again imprisoned or restrained, or kept in custody for the same cause, except in the following cases: (1) If he has been discharged from custody on a criminal charge, and is afterwards committed for the same offense, by legal order or process. (2) If, after a discharge for defect of proof, or for any defect of the process, warrant, or commitment in a criminal case, the prisoner is again arrested on sufficient proof and committed by legal process for the proceeding offense.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1323 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1323. Warrant in lieu of writ

 (a) When it appears to the court that anyone is illegally held in custody, confinement or restraint and that there is reason to believe that such person will be carried out of the jurisdiction of the court before whom the application is made, or will suffer some irreparable injury before compliance with the writ of habeas corpus can be enforced, the court may cause a warrant to be issued, reciting the facts, and directed to any officer, commanding such officer to take such person thus held in custody, confinement, or restraint and forthwith bring him before the court to be dealt with according to law. (b) The court may also insert in such warrant a command for the apprehension of the person charged with such illegal detention and restraint. (c) The officer to whom such warrant is delivered must execute it by bringing the person therein named before the court. (d) The person alleged to have such party under illegal confinement or restraint may make return to such warrant, as in case of a writ of habeas corpus, and the same may be denied, and like allegations, proofs, and trial may thereupon be had as upon a return to a writ of habeas corpus. (e) If such party is held under illegal restraint or custody, he must be discharged, and if not, he must be restored to the care or custody of the person entitled thereto.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1324 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1324. Time of issue and service of writ or process

 Any writ or process authorized by this chapter may be issued and served on any day or at any time.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1325 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1325. Form, issue, service, and return of writs, etc.

 (a) All writs, warrants, process, and subpoenas authorized by the provisions of this chapter shall be issued by the clerk of the court, and except subpoenas, shall be sealed with the seal of such court, and served and returned forthwith, unless the court specifies a particular time for any such return. (b) All such writs and process, when made returnable before a judge, must be returned before him at the place of holding court, and there heard and determined.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1361 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 93 - Remedies Formerly Available by Mandamus|§ 1361. Remedies formerly available by writ of mandamus to compel performance of duties

 (a) In an appropriate action, or upon an appropriate motion in an action, under the practice prescribed in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and in this title, the district court may issue a mandatory order to any inferior court, corporation, board, officer, or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station. Although such order may require the court, corporation, board, officer, or person to exercise its or his judgment, or proceed to the discharge of any of its or his functions, the order shall not control judicial discretion. The order shall not be issued in any case where there is a plain, speedy, and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law. (b) When an order under subsection (a) of this section is directed to a public officer or body commanding the performance of any public duty specially enjoined by law, if it appears to the court that such officer or any member of such body has refused or neglected to perform the duty so enjoined without just excuse, the court may imprison, or impose a fine of not more than $1,000 upon, every such officer or member of such body for each refusal.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1391 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 95 - Interpleader|§ 1391. Jurisdiction of courts

 (a) The district court and Superior Court shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action of interpleader or in the nature of interpleader filed by any person, firm, corporation, association, or society having in his or its custody or possession any money or property in an amount of a value within the respective jurisdictions of such courts, as the case may be, or having issued a note, bond, certificate, policy of insurance, or other instrument of such amount or value, or providing for the delivery or payment or the loan of money or property of such amount or value, or being under any obligation written or unwritten to such amount, if— (1) two or more adverse claimants are claiming or may claim to be entitled to such money or property, or to any one or more of the benefits arising by virtue of any note, bond, certificate, policy or other instrument, or arising by virtue of any such obligation; and (2) the plaintiff has deposited such money or property or has paid the amount of or the loan or other value of such instrument or the amount due under such obligation into the registry of the court, there to abide the judgment of the court, or has given bond payable to the clerk of the court in such amount and with such surety as the court or judge may deem proper, conditioned upon the compliance by the plaintiff with the future order or judgment of the court with respect to the subject matter of the controversy. (b) Such an action may be entertained although the titles or claims of the conflicting claimants do not have a common origin, or are not identical, but are adverse to and independent of one another.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1421 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 97 - Writ of Review|§ 1421. Proceedings and orders reviewable

 Any party to any proceeding before or by any officer, board, commission, authority, or tribunal may have the decision or determination thereof reviewed for errors therein as prescribed in this chapter and rules of court. Upon the review, the court may review any intermediate order involving the merits necessarily affecting the decision or determination sought to be reviewed.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1422 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 97 - Writ of Review|§ 1422. Grounds for writ

 The writ of review shall be allowed in all cases where there is no appeal or other plain, speedy, and adequate remedy, and where the officer, board, commission, authority, or tribunal in the exercise of his or its functions appears to have exercised such functions erroneously, or to have exceeded his or its jurisdiction, to the injury of some substantial right of the plaintiff.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1423 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 97 - Writ of Review|§ 1423. Powers of court on review; appeal

 Upon the review provided for in this chapter the court shall have power to affirm, modify, reverse, or annul the decision or determination reviewed, and, if necessary, to award restitution to the plaintiff, or, by mandate, direct the officer, board, commission, authority, or tribunal to proceed in the matter reviewed according to its decision. From the judgment of the district court on review an appeal may be taken in like manner and with like effect as from a judgment of such district court in a civil action.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1451 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 99 - Comparative Damages|§ 1451. Damages where contributory negligence has been proven

 (a) In any action based upon negligence to recover for injury to person or property, the contributory negligence of the plaintiff shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the trier of fact in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to the plaintiff. The burden of proving contributory negligence shall be on the defendant. If such claimant is found by the trier of fact to be more at fault than the defendant, or, in the case of multiple defendants, more at fault than the combined fault of the defendants, the claimant may not recover. (b) This section does not apply to any action based upon a statute the violation of which imposes absolute liability, whether or not such statute comprehends negligent conduct. (c) The trier of fact shall report by general verdict the total damages, in dollars and cents, not reduced by any contributory negligence of plaintiff, and if plaintiff is found to be contributorily negligent, shall also report the amount to which the damages are reduced by reason thereof, in dollars and cents, in which case the lesser monetary amount shall be the final verdict in the case. (d) Where recovery is allowed against more than one defendant, the trier of fact shall apportion, in dollars and cents, the amount awarded against each defendant. Liability of defendants to plaintiff shall be joint and several but, for contribution between defendants, each defendant shall be liable for that proportion of the verdict as the trier of fact has apportioned against such defendant; provided, however, no defendant in a cause of action concerning a motor vehicle accident shall be responsible for any judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff greater than the amount of negligence apportioned to such defendant unless the negligence of the defendant shall be greater than 50 percent, in which case the defendant shall be responsible for the total amount of the judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff, less any percentage of contributory negligence attributed to the plaintiff. (e) This section shall apply to all causes of action accruing 60 days after the effective date of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1471 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 101 - Civil Procedure for Victims of Stalking|§ 1471. Short title and declaration of purpose

 (a) This chapter may be cited as “The Virgin Islands Civil Procedure for Victims of Stalking Act” and its general purposes are to: (1) Assure that victims of stalking are granted the maximum protection from abuse that the law can provide; (2) Create a flexible and speedy remedy to discourage violence and harassment against individuals who are not related to the alleged perpetrator or others with whom the perpetrator has continuing contact; (3) Expand the ability of the Virgin Islands Police Department and law enforcement officers to assist victims, to enforce the law effectively in cases of stalking, and to prevent further incidents of abuse; (4) Develop a greater understanding within the Virgin Islands community of the incidences and causes of stalking; (5) Facilitate equal enforcement of the criminal laws of the Territory by deterring and punishing violence against individuals who are not personally involved with the offenders; and (6) Recognize that stalking is a serious crime that adversely affects its victims and which will no longer be excused or tolerated. (b) This chapter must be liberally construed to protect all victims of stalking and to ensure that they receive equal access to judicial protection.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1472 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 101 - Civil Procedure for Victims of Stalking|§ 1472. Definitions

 As used in this chapter: (1) “Stalking” means purposely and repeatedly following another person and engaging in a course of conduct or making a credible threat with the intent of annoying or placing that person in reasonable fear of death or bodily harm or injury and causing emotional distress. (2) “Credible threat” means an explicit or implicit threat made with the intent and the apparent ability to carry out the threat, so as to cause the targeted person to reasonably fear for personal safety or the safety of a family member. (3) “Course of conduct” means an act that happens more than once, however brief, within a year, directed at a specific person, evidencing a continuity of purpose which would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress; which includes but is not limited to the stalker’s directly or indirectly, by any action, method or device, following, monitoring, observing, pursuing, threatening, or communicating to, or about a person, or interfering with a person’s property. (4) “Harassment” means engaging in a knowing and intentional course of conduct directed at a specific person which alarms annoys torments or terrorizes the person and would cause a reasonable person to suffer emotional distress. (5) “cyberstalk” means to communicate, or to cause to be communicated, words, images, or language through the use of electronic mail or electronic communication directed to a specific person which serves no legitimate purpose, but causes that person substantial emotional distress.