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V.I. Code tit. 5, § 258 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 258. Attachment of real property; recording

 If real property is attached, the marshal shall make a certificate containing the title of the cause, the names of the parties, a description of such real property, and a statement that the same has been attached at the action of the plaintiff and the date thereof. Within ten days from the date of attachment, the marshal shall deliver such certificate to the recorder of deeds who shall file and record the same in his office in the judicial division in which the property is located. When such certificate is so filed for record the lien in favor of the plaintiff shall attach to the real property described in the certificate from the date of the attachment, but if filed afterwards it shall only attach, as against the third persons, from the date of such subsequent filing. Whenever such lien shall be discharged it shall be the duty of the recorder, when requested, to record the transcript of any order, entry of satisfaction of judgment, or other proceeding of record whereby it appears that such lien has been discharged in the records. The recorder shall also enter on the margin of the page on which the certificate is recorded a minute of the discharge, and the page and book where recorded.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 259 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 259. Perishable property

 If any of the property attached is perishable, the marshal shall sell the same in the manner in which property is sold on execution. The proceeds thereof and other property attached shall be retained by him to answer any judgment that may be recovered in the action, unless sooner subjected to execution upon another judgment.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 260 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 260. Delivery of property to defendant or other claimant; undertaking

 The marshal may deliver any of the property attached to the defendant, or to any other person claiming it, upon his giving a written undertaking thereof, executed by two or more sufficient sureties, engaging to redeliver it or pay the value thereof to the marshal, to whom execution upon a judgment obtained by the plaintiff in that action may be issued. If an action is brought upon such undertaking against the principal or his sureties, it shall be a defense that the property for which the undertaking was given did not, at the execution of the writ of attachment, belong to the defendant against whom it was issued.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 261 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 261. Judgment for plaintiff; sale of property; execution

 If judgment is recovered by the plaintiff, and it shall appear that the property has been attached in the action and has not been sold as perishable property or discharged from the attachment as provided by law, the court shall order and adjudge the property to be sold to satisfy the plaintiff's demands, and if execution issues thereon, the marshal shall apply the property attached by him, or the proceeds thereof, upon the execution, and if there is any such property or proceeds remaining after satisfying such execution, he shall, upon demand, deliver the same to the defendant.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 262 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 262. Judgment for defendant; return of property

 If judgment is not recovered by the plaintiff, all the property attached, or the proceeds thereof, or the undertaking thereof, shall be returned to the defendant upon his serving upon the marshal a certified copy of the order discharging the attachment.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 263 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 263. Discharge of attachment upon undertaking of defendant

 (a) Whenever the defendant has appeared in the action he may apply upon notice to the plaintiff to the court in which the action is pending or to the clerk of such court, for an order to discharge the attachment upon the execution of the undertaking mentioned in subsection (b) of this section; and if the application is allowed, all the proceeds of sales of property remaining in the hands of the marshal shall be released from the attachment and delivered to the defendant upon his serving a certified copy of the order on the marshal. (b) Upon making the application the defendant shall deliver to the court to which the application is made an undertaking executed by one or more sureties, to the effect that the sureties will pay to the plaintiff the amount of the judgment that may be recovered against the defendant in the action. If the plaintiff demands it, the sureties shall be required to justify in the same manner as sureties for bail upon an arrest. (c) The defendant may, at any time before judgment, except where the cause of attachment and the cause of action are the same, apply to the court in which the action is pending to discharge the attachment, in the manner and with the effect as provided in section 185 of this title for the discharge of a defendant from arrest.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 264 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 264. Return of writ of attachment

 When the writ of attachment shall be fully executed or discharged, the marshal shall return the same, with his proceedings indorsed thereon to the clerk of the court where the action was commenced.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 265 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 265. Garnishment; certificate; order for examination of garnishee

 (a) Whenever the marshal with a writ of attachment against the defendant, applies to any person or officer mentioned in paragraph (3) of section 256 of this title, for the purpose of attaching any property mentioned therein, such person or officer shall furnish him with a certificate designating the amount and shall give a description of any property in his possession belonging to the defendant or any debt owing to the defendant, or the number of rights or shares of the defendant in the stock of the association or corporation, with any interest or profits or encumbrance thereon. If such person or officer refuses to do so, or if the certificate when given is unsatisfactory to the plaintiff, he may be required by the court in which the action is pending, to appear before the court and be examined on oath concerning the same, and disobedience to such order may be punished as contempt. (b) The order provided for in subsection (a) of this section shall require such person or officer to appear before such court at a time and place therein stated. In the proceedings thereafter upon such order such person or association or corporation shall be known as the garnishee. (c) Personal property mentioned in paragraph (3) of section 256 of this title may be delivered, transferred, or paid to the marshal without an action, and his receipt shall be sufficient discharge. (d) At any time before judgment the garnishee may discharge himself by delivering, transferring, or paying the property to the marshal.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 266 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 266. Service of allegations and interrogatories upon garnishee

 After the allowance of the order and before such garnishee or officer thereof is thereby required to appear, or within a time to be specified in the order, the plaintiff may serve upon such garnishee or officer thereof written allegations and interrogatories touching any of the property liable to attachment as the property of the defendant, as provided in paragraph (3) of section 256 of this title and as to which such garnishee or officer thereof is required to give a certificate as provided in section 265 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 267 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 267. Answer by garnishee

 On the day when the garnishee or officer thereof is required to appear before the court, he shall return the allegations and interrogatories of the plaintiff to the court with his written answer thereof, unless for good cause shown a further time is allowed. Such answer shall be on oath, and shall contain a full and direct response to all the allegations and interrogatories.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 268 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 268. Judgment against garnishee for failure to answer; limit on judgment

 If the garnishee or officer thereof fails to answer, the court, on motion of the plaintiff, may compel him to do so, or the plaintiff may, at any time after the entry of judgment against the defendant in the action have judgment against the garnishee for want of such answer. In no case shall judgment be given against the garnishee for a greater amount than the judgment against the defendant in the action.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 269 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 269. Exception by plaintiff

 The plaintiff may except to the answer of the garnishee or officer thereof for insufficiency, within such time as may be prescribed or allowed, and if the same is adjudged insufficient, such garnishee or officer may be allowed to amend his answer on such terms as may be proper, or judgment may be given for the plaintiff as for want of answer, or such garnishee or officer may be compelled to give a sufficient answer.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 270 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 270. Reply by plaintiff; trial of issues

 The plaintiff may reply to the whole or part of the answer within such time as may be prescribed or allowed, and the issues arising thereon shall be tried as ordinary issues of fact between plaintiff and defendant. If the answer is not excepted or replied to within the time prescribed or allowed, it shall be taken to be true and sufficient. Witnesses, including the defendant and garnishee or officer thereof, may be required to appear and testify in the proceeding against a garnishee as upon the trial of an issue of fact.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 271 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 271. Judgment against garnishee

 If by the answer it appears, or if upon trial it is found, that the garnishee, at the time of the service upon him or the officer thereof of the copy of the writ of attachment and notice, had any property of the defendant liable to attachment as provided in paragraph (3) of section 256 of this title, and as to which such garnishee or officer thereof is required to give a certificate as provided in section 265 of this title beyond the amount admitted in the certificate, or in any amount if the certificate was refused, judgment may be given against such garnishee for the value thereof in money.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 272 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 272. Execution against garnishee; costs

 Executions may issue upon judgments against a garnishee as upon ordinary judgments between plaintiff and defendant, and costs and disbursements shall be allowed and recovered in like manner.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 273 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 273. Restraining order against garnishee

 At the time of the application of the plaintiff for the order provided for in section 265 of this title and at any time thereafter before judgment against the garnishee, the court in its discretion may by order restrain the garnishee from paying, transferring, or in any manner disposing of or injuring any of the property of the defendant, alleged by the plaintiff to be in the garnishee's possession, control, or owing by him to the defendant, and disobedience to such order may be punished as a contempt.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 321 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 31 - Mode of Trial; Trial Jury|§ 321. Jury trial of right

 The right of trial by jury as declared by the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States shall apply in civil actions in the District Court of the Virgin Islands, except as otherwise provided by law.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 322 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 31 - Mode of Trial; Trial Jury|§ 322. Trial jury; number; how chosen

 The trial jury in civil actions shall consist of twelve persons, unless the parties consent to a lesser number. The trial jury shall be drawn by lot by the clerk from a trial jury box containing the names of those who have been summoned and not excused as jurors under chapter 29 of Title 4.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 323 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 31 - Mode of Trial; Trial Jury|§ 323. Challenges

 (a) In civil cases each party shall be entitled to three peremptory challenges. Several defendants or several plaintiffs shall be considered as a single party for the purpose of making challenges. If there is more than one defendant the court may allow the defendants additional peremptory challenges and permit them to be exercised separately or jointly. (b) All challenges for cause or favor, whether to the array or panel or to individual jurors, shall be determined by the court.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 324 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 31 - Mode of Trial; Trial Jury|§ 324. Jury to be sworn

 As soon as the trial jury in a civil action has been selected, an oath or affirmation shall be administered to the jurors to the effect that they and each of them will well and truly try the matter in issue between the plaintiff and defendant, and a true verdict give according to the law and evidence.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 351 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 33 - Conduct of the Trial|§ 351. Order of procedure

 When the jury has been selected and sworn, the trial shall proceed in the following order, unless the court for special reasons otherwise directs: (1) The plaintiff shall state briefly his cause of action, and the issue to be tried; the defendant shall then in like manner state his defense or counterclaim. (2) The plaintiff shall then introduce the evidence on his part, and when he has concluded the defendant shall do the same. (3) The parties may then respectively introduce rebutting evidence only, unless the court, for good reason and in furtherance of justice, permits them to introduce evidence upon the original cause of action, defense, or counterclaim. (4) Not more than one counsel shall be permitted to address the jury or court on behalf of a plaintiff or defendant, unless otherwise allowed by the court; and the court may limit the time to be consumed by counsel in arguing the cause. (5) When the evidence is concluded, unless the case is submitted by both sides without argument, the plaintiff shall commence and conclude the argument. If the plaintiff waives the opening argument, and the defendant then argues the case, the plaintiff shall be permitted only to reply to the argument of the defendant. (6) The court shall then charge the jury.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 352 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 33 - Conduct of the Trial|§ 352. View by jury

 Whenever, in the opinion of the court, it is proper that the jury should have a view of real property which is the subject of the litigation, or of the place in which any material fact occurred, it may order the jury to be conducted in a body, in the custody of a proper officer, to the place, which shall be shown to them by the judge, or by a person appointed by the court for that purpose.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 353 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 33 - Conduct of the Trial|§ 353. Keeping of jury; admonition

 The jurors may be kept together in charge of a proper officer, or may, in the discretion of the court, at any time before the submission of the cause to them, be permitted to separate. In either case they may be admonished by the court that it is their duty not to converse with any other person, or among themselves, on any subject connected with the trial, or to express any opinion thereon, until the case is finally submitted to them.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 354 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 33 - Conduct of the Trial|§ 354. Retirement of jury; duties of officer in charge

 After hearing the charge the jury may either decide in the jury box or retire for deliberation. If they retire they must be kept together in a room provided for them, or some other convenient place, under the charge of one or more officers, until they agree upon their verdict or are discharged by the court. The officer shall, to the utmost of his ability, keep the jury thus together separate from other persons. He shall not permit any communication to be made to them, nor make any himself unless by the order of the court, except to ask them if they have agreed upon their verdict, and he shall not, before the verdict is rendered, communicate to any person the state of their deliberation or the verdict agreed on. Before any officer takes charge of a jury this section shall be read to him, and he shall be then sworn to conduct himself according to its provisions, to the utmost of his ability.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 355 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 33 - Conduct of the Trial|§ 355. Food and lodging for jurors

 If while the jury are kept together, either during the progress of the trial or after their retirement for deliberation, the court orders them to be provided with suitable and sufficient food and lodging, they shall be so provided by the marshal, at the expense of the party requesting the jury, which expense shall be taxed in the costs of the case.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 356 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 33 - Conduct of the Trial|§ 356. Papers taken with jury

 Upon retiring for deliberation the jury may take with them the pleadings in the cause, and all papers which have been received as evidence on the trial (except depositions, or copies of such parts of public records or private documents given in evidence as ought not, in the opinion of the court, to be taken from the person having them in possession). They may also take with them notes of the testimony or other proceedings on the trial taken by themselves, or any of them, but none taken by any other person.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 357 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 33 - Conduct of the Trial|§ 357. Return for instructions

 After the jury have retired for deliberation, if they desire to be informed on any point of law arising in the case, they may require the officer having them in charge to conduct them into court. Upon their being brought into court the instruction required shall be given by the court in the presence of or after notice to the parties or their attorneys.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 358 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 33 - Conduct of the Trial|§ 358. Discharge without verdict; verdict by five-sixths

 Except in case of some accident or calamity requiring their discharge, the jury shall not be discharged after the cause is submitted to them until they have agreed upon a verdict and given it in open court, unless by the consent of both parties entered in the minutes or unless at the expiration of such period as the court deems proper it satisfactorily appears that there is no probability of an agreement of five-sixths of them. Five-sixths of the jury may render a verdict in civil actions.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 359 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 33 - Conduct of the Trial|§ 359. Manner of giving verdict

 When five-sixths of the jury have agreed upon their verdict they shall be conducted into court by the officer having them in charge. They shall be asked by the court or the clerk whether they have agreed upon their verdict, and if the foreman answers in the affirmative he shall, on being required, declare the same.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 360 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 33 - Conduct of the Trial|§ 360. Poll of jury; correction of verdict

 When a verdict is given and before it is filed, the jury may be polled on the request of either party, for which purpose each shall be asked whether it is his verdict. If more than one-sixth of the jurors answer in the negative, the jury shall be sent out for further deliberation. If the verdict is informal or insufficient, it may be corrected by the jury under the advice of the court, or the jury may again be sent out.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 361 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 33 - Conduct of the Trial|§ 361. Filing and form of verdict; discharge of jury

 When the verdict is given, and is such as the court may receive, and the jury is not again sent out, the clerk shall file the verdict. The verdict is then complete, and the jury shall be discharged from the case. The verdict shall be in writing, and under the direction of the court shall be substantially entered in the minutes as of the day's proceedings on which it was given.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 362 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part III - Trial|Chapter 33 - Conduct of the Trial|§ 362. Verdict in action for recovery of personal property

 In an action for the recovery of specific personal property, if the property has not been delivered to the plaintiff, or the defendant by his answer claims a return thereof, the jury shall assess the value of the property, if their verdict is in favor of the plaintiff or if they find in favor of the defendant and that he is entitled to a return thereof, and may at the same time assess the damages, if any are claimed in the complaint or answer, which the prevailing party has sustained by reason of the detention or taking and withholding of such property.