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V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1172 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 85 - Actions to Prevent Usurpation of Office or Franchise; Actions for Forfeiture of Office|§ 1172. Usurpation of office or franchise; forfeiture of office; illegally acting as corporation

 An action may be maintained in the name of the government of the Virgin Islands upon the information of the United States attorney or upon the relation of a private person against the person offending in the following cases: (1) When any person shall usurp, intrude into, or unlawfully hold or exercise any public office, or any franchise within the Virgin Islands, or any office in a corporation, either public or private, created or formed by or under the authority of the Virgin Islands; or, (2) When any public officer has done or suffered an act to be performed which, by the provisions of law, makes a forfeiture of his office; or, (3) When any association or number of persons acts within the Virgin Islands as a corporation without being duly incorporated.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1173 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 85 - Actions to Prevent Usurpation of Office or Franchise; Actions for Forfeiture of Office|§ 1173. Procedure

 (a) Actions under this chapter shall be commenced and prosecuted by the United States attorney in the District Court of the Virgin Islands. He shall commence such an action whenever he has reason to believe that a cause of action exists and can be proven. (b) When an action under this chapter is commenced upon the relation of a private person having an interest in the question, such person shall be deemed a coplaintiff for all purposes of the action and as to the effect of any judgment which may be given therein. (c) In every case of private interest only, the relator shall give satisfactory security to the government of the Virgin Islands to indemnify it against the costs and expenses which may be incurred in the action. (d) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the procedure in actions hereunder shall be the same as that applicable to civil actions generally.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1174 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 85 - Actions to Prevent Usurpation of Office or Franchise; Actions for Forfeiture of Office|§ 1174. Rights of person entitled to office or franchise

 (a) Several persons may be joined as defendants in an action for the causes specified in subdivision (1) of section 1172 of this title, and in such action their respective rights to such office or franchise may be determined. (b) Whenever an action is brought against a person for any of the causes specified in subdivision (1) of section 1172 of this title, the United States attorney, in addition to the statement of the cause of action, may also separately set forth in the complaint the name of the person rightfully entitled to the office or franchise, with a statement of the facts constituting his rights thereto. In such case, judgment may be given upon the right of the defendant, and also upon the right of the person so alleged to be entitled, or only upon the right of the defendant as justice may require. (c) If judgment is given upon the right of the person so alleged to be entitled, and the same is in favor of such person, he shall be entitled to the possession and enjoyment of such franchise, or to take upon himself the execution of such office, after qualifying himself as required by law, and to demand and receive the possession of all the books, papers, and property of whatever nature belonging thereto. (d) If judgment is given upon the right and in favor of the person so alleged to be entitled, he may afterwards maintain an action to recover the damages which he may have sustained by reasons of the premises. In such action the defendant may be arrested and held to bail in the same manner and with the like effect as in other actions where the defendant is subject to arrest.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1175 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 85 - Actions to Prevent Usurpation of Office or Franchise; Actions for Forfeiture of Office|§ 1175. Judgment of exclusion from office or franchise; fine

 When a defendant against whom an action has commenced for any of the causes specified in subdivision (1) of section 1172 of this title, is determined to be guilty of usurping or intruding into, or unlawfully holding or exercising any office or franchise, judgment shall be given that such defendant be excluded therefrom. The court may also in its discretion impose a fine upon the defendant not exceeding $500.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1176 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 85 - Actions to Prevent Usurpation of Office or Franchise; Actions for Forfeiture of Office|§ 1176. Enforcement of judgment

 A judgment in any action under this chapter in respect to costs may be enforced by execution as a judgment which requires the payment of money. In all other respects, obedience to the judgment may be enforced by attachment of the body of the defendant, or, if the defendant is a corporation, the body of any or all of the officers or members of such corporation refusing or neglecting obedience thereto.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1201 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1201. Validity of assignments

 No voluntary assignment for the benefit of creditors hereafter made shall be valid unless the same is made in conformity to the terms of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1202 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1202. Property covered by assignment

 Every assignment for the benefit of creditors shall be of all the property, real and personal, of the assignor or assignors therein named, wherever situated, except so much thereof as may be exempt by law from levy and sale on execution.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1203 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1203. Description of property

 (a) Real property so assigned shall be described in the deed of assignment in such manner as would be requisite in an ordinary deed of conveyance thereof, and real property claimed to be exempt shall be expressly excepted by like description. (b) Personal property claimed to be exempt shall be separately specified and described as such in the inventory of the assignor or assignors required by this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1204 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1204. Clerk of district court as original assignee

 In every such assignment the clerk of the district court shall be named as assignee.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1205 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1205. Form and execution; recording

 Such assignment shall be in writing, and shall be executed and acknowledged in the manner in which a conveyance of real property is required to be executed and acknowledged in order to entitle the same to be recorded. Within twenty-four hours after its execution it shall be filed for record in the clerk's office. If it conveys real property it shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1206 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1206. Duties of clerk

 Immediately upon the execution and delivery of any such assignment, the clerk shall take possession of all the assigned estate, and preserve, insure, and safely keep the same for administration according to law. The clerk and his sureties shall be liable, upon his official bond, for the faithful execution of the trust created by the assignment, for the preservation of the assigned estate, and for the accounting for and paying over of all moneys derived therefrom. He shall, under order of the district court, inspect the assigned estate, and take all necessary steps to sell or properly dispose of any and all perishable goods or property of said estate.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1207 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1207. Inventory of assignor

 Within ten days after the assignment is made the assignor or assignors executing the same shall make and file in the district court an inventory verified by the affidavit of the person or persons making the same, that the same is in all respects full, true, and accurate according to the best of their knowledge and belief, and showing: (1) all the creditors of the assignor or assignors; (2) the place of residence of each creditor, if known to the assignor or assignors, and if not known, that fact must be stated; (3) the sum owing to each creditor, and the nature of each debt or liability, whether arising on written security, account, or otherwise; (4) the true consideration of the liability in each case; when and where it arose; and whether there has been any renewal or new promise in relation thereto; (5) every existing mortgage, judgment, or other security for the payment of any debt or liability of the assignor or assignors; (6) all property of the assignor or assignors at the date of the assignment which is exempt by law from execution; and (7) all of the assignor's property at the date of the assignment, both real and personal, of every kind and wherever situated, not so exempt; the encumbrances existing thereon; all vouchers and securities relating thereto; and the value of such property in detail according to the best of the assignor's knowledge.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1208 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1208. Notice of creditors' meeting

 Immediately upon the receipt of the inventory, the judge of the district court shall fix a day, not more than fifteen days thereafter, for a meeting of the creditors of such assignor or assignors at his office for the purpose of choosing an assignee to succeed the clerk in the trust. He shall immediately give notice of the time and place of the meeting by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the Virgin Islands and also shall within two days after the first publication thereof, send a copy of the notice to each creditor mentioned in the inventory, addressed to his place of residence therein named, with postage prepaid. No informality or neglect with reference to the notice shall invalidate an action taken pursuant thereto or to the order of the court.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1209 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1209. Creditors' meeting; choice of assignee to succeed clerk

 At the time and place fixed in the order, the creditors, or so many of them as are present in person or by proxy, may proceed by ballot to choose an assignee to succeed the clerk, and the clerk shall not be eligible. At the election each creditor shall be entitled to cast one vote, but no person shall be regarded as chosen unless he receives the votes of creditors representing a majority of the gross indebtedness, and is also voted for by one-third of all the creditors. No creditor shall be permitted to vote upon any claim against the assignor or assignors unless the same is verified by the affidavit of the creditor to be just and reasonable and wholly unpaid to the extent claimed, setting forth the true consideration thereof and that the same is not, to the best of his knowledge and belief, subject, to any legal or equitable claim, recoupment, counterclaim, or set-off, which if allowed, would reduce the debt below the amount claimed.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1210 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1210. Adjournment of meeting; failure to choose assignee

 The meeting of the creditors may be adjourned from day to day not exceeding three days. If there is a failure to choose an assignee as provided in section 1209 of this title, the clerk shall remain the assignee of the estate.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1211 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1211. Inventory and appraisement

 (a) Immediately upon the adjournment of the creditors' meeting the clerk and the assignee, if any is chosen at the meeting, shall proceed to make and return to the district court an inventory and appraisement of the entire estate assigned. (b) From time to time, the assignee shall file in the court an additional inventory and valuation of any property coming into his hands after the filing of any former inventory, which shall be treated as a part of the original inventory and appraisement.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1212 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1212. Delivery of property to assignee

 The clerk shall deliver to such assignee all the personal property belonging to such estate, and shall execute and deliver to such assignee, as such, a deed of quit claim of all real property conveyed by the assignment.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1213 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1213. Period for filing claims or objections; claims not due

 (a) Upon the day of meeting of the creditors the judge shall fix a day, not more than 60 nor less than 30 days thereafter, within which all claims against the assignee estate shall be filed, and within which the assignee or assignor or any creditor may file any objection, defense, set-off, or counterclaim to any claim which the assignor might have opposed to the same had action been brought upon the same before assignment. Notice of the time so fixed shall be given in the manner provided in section 1208 of this title for notice of the first meeting of the creditors. Any claim, objection, set-off, or counterclaim not filed on or before the date so named shall be forever barred from being considered in the settlement of said estate or participating in any dividend therein. (b) Proof may be made of claims not due, but in such cases a reasonable rebate shall be made in case they do not draw interest, or in case they draw interest at a less rate than may be allowed by law.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1214 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1214. Allowance of uncontested claims; proceedings on contested claims

 On the day following the day fixed under the provisions of section 1213 of this title all uncontested claims shall be allowed by the judge. Upon all contested claims the judge shall order pleadings, as nearly as practicable like those in ordinary civil actions, to be summarily made up, and thereupon said cause shall proceed as in ordinary civil actions.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1215 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1215. Judgment on contested claims

 Judgment in an action on a contested claim shall be that such claim or some amount thereof be allowed, or that the same be disallowed, or that the assignee recover from the person making the claim a certain amount. If the claim is allowed, judgment for costs shall be adjudged against the party or parties contesting the same. If the claim is allowed in part only, the court shall apportion the costs or adjudge them as may be just. If the claim is wholly disallowed, or the assignee recovers judgment, costs shall be adjudged against the claimant, but in no case shall the costs be paid out of the assigned estate except as otherwise provided in this chapter. In such cause the claimant shall be named as plaintiff, and the contestants or contestant as defendant. Judgment in favor of the assignee or for costs shall be collected as in other cases.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1216 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1216. Sale of assigned estate

 (a) Immediately upon the return of the inventory and appraisement, the assignee shall proceed to advertise for sale and sell the assigned estate in all respects as though the same had been taken on execution issued out of the district court. Real property so sold shall be conveyed by the assignee to the purchaser or purchasers of the same by deeds or deeds of conveyance, executed and acknowledged as in other cases, which shall convey all the interest the assignor had in the property sold at the date of the assignment. Before such conveyance is made the proceedings on the sale shall be returned to and confirmed by the court as in case of sales of real property on execution, and the court may set aside the sale or make any order in the premises as in case of such sales on execution. No notice of an application to have the sale confirmed need be given to any person, but any party interested may appear and resist the confirmation, and the application may be made by any person interested, and the assignee may be compelled by attachment by the court to make the return with all reasonable dispatch. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the creditors at their first meeting may, by a like vote as that required for the election of an assignee, require any portion or all the personal property assigned to be sold at private sale. Upon such request the court shall make an order that the personal property described in the request shall be sold by the assignee at private sale, and shall direct the mode of such sale whether the same being merchandise, shall be sold by retail or in job lots, or both, or otherwise, and whether upon any or upon what notice or advertisement, and such sale shall be solely for cash. No such property shall be sold at private sale for less than its appraised value, except upon written application of a majority in amount of the claims voted upon the election of the assignee, fixing the price, and on order of the court. The court shall also direct by order who shall be employed if any one, to assist at such private sale, and the amount of his or their compensation. The private sale shall not continue longer than sixty days after the making of the order authorizing the same. At the expiration of such time the remainder of such estate, if any, shall be immediately advertised and sold in the manner provided in subsection (a) of this section.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1217 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1217. Reports of sales; proceeds

 Immediately upon the sale of any portion of the estate, the assignee shall report to the court the description or descriptions of the property sold and the amount received for the same and shall retain the proceeds subject to the order of the court. He shall also make a like report between the first and fifth days inclusive of every calendar month after his appointment.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1218 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1218. Priority for distribution of moneys

 Moneys coming into the hands of the assignee shall be distributed in the following order— (1) to the payment of the fees and allowances of the assignee, clerk, marshal, attorneys, and officers; (2) to the payment of any public tax or assessment charged against the assignor or assignors or his or their property; (3) to the payment of claims for labor or wages of not more than 60 days; (4) to the payment of other preferred claims in full; (5) the balance shall be divided among the creditors so that the amount paid to each shall bear the same relation to the whole sum to be so divided that the amount of such creditor's claim shall bear to the aggregate amount of all the claims proven.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1219 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1219. Dividends for contested claims

 If at the time any order of distribution is made there is any contested claim still being litigated, a dividend shall be declared in its favor in all respects as though the same had been finally allowed, but the assignee shall be directed, in the order of distribution, to retain the same in his hands until the litigation shall be finally determined. When it is certified to the court by the clerk that litigation therein is finally determined, and that the time for appeal or proceedings in error therein has expired, or has been waived, the court shall make a further order determining the amount of such dividend to which such claimant is entitled, if any, and directing the assignee to pay such amount to such claimant and retain the balance of such dividend, if any, to be distributed in the same manner as other funds belonging to the estate.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1220 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 87 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|§ 1220. Orders for distribution of moneys

 (a) At the expiration of two hundred and ten days from the date of the inventory and appraisement, or sooner if, and as often as the assignee is in the possession of sufficient funds, the court shall order a distribution of all moneys in the assignee's hands, fixing the amount in dollars and cents to be paid to each person entitled thereto, and thereupon the assignee and his sureties shall become liable to such person therefor absolutely. The court may also enforce obedience to such order by the assignee by attachment for contempt, and may commit him to jail, or any suitable place of confinement and safekeeping until he shall comply therewith. (b) When all the estate has been converted into money, and all the contested claims have been finally determined and the result thereof certified to the court as provided in section 1219 of this title, the court shall make a final order of distribution, which shall be immediately obeyed. Such final order shall have the same effect and may be enforced in like manner as the order mentioned in subsection (a) of this section.