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V.I. Code tit. 28, § 464 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 464. Partial sale; setting off estate for life or years

 When a part of the property only is ordered to be sold, if there is an estate for life or years in an undivided share of the property, the whole of such estate may be set off in any part of the property not ordered to be sold.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 465 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 465. Certificate showing liens; ascertainment by referee

 If an order of sale is made, and before a distribution of the proceeds thereof, the plaintiffs shall produce to the court a certificate showing the liens remaining unsatisfied, if any, by judgment upon the property, or any portion thereof, and unless he does so the court shall order a referee to ascertain them.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 466 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 466. Referee to ascertain amount of liens and priorities

 If it appears by a certificate, or reference in case the certificate is not produced under section 465 of this title, that any such liens exist, the court shall appoint a referee to ascertain what amount remains due thereon or secured thereby, respectively, and the order of priority in which they are entitled to be paid out of the property.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 467 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 467. Notice to lien creditors

 The plaintiff shall cause a notice to be served, at least ten days before the time for appearance, on each person having such lien by judgment to appear before the referee at a specified time and place to make proof by his own affidavit or otherwise of the true amount due, or to become due, contingently or absolutely, on his judgment.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 468 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 468. Proceedings and report of referee

 The referee shall receive the evidence and report the names of the creditors whose liens are established, the amounts thereon or secured thereby, and their priority, respectively, and whether contingent or absolute. He shall attach to his report the proof of service of the notices and the evidence before him.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 469 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 469. Exceptions to referee's report; notice to absent creditor

 The report of the referee may be excepted to by either party to the action or to the proceedings before the referee, in like manner and with like effect as in ordinary cases. If a lien creditor is absent from the Virgin Islands, or his residence therein is unknown, and that fact appears by affidavit, the court may by order direct that service of the notice may be made upon his agent or attorney of record or by publication thereof for such time and in such manner as the order may prescribe.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 470 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 470. Confirmation of report; conclusiveness

 If the report of the referee is confirmed, the order of confirmation is binding and conclusive upon all parties to the action and upon the lien creditors who have been duly served with the notice to appear before the referee as provided in section 467 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 471 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 471. Distribution of proceeds of sale

 The proceeds of the sale of the encumbered property shall be distributed by the judgment of the court as follows— (1) to pay its just proportion of the general cost of the action; (2) to pay the costs of the reference; (3) to satisfy the several liens, in their order of priority, by payment of the sums due and to become due, according to the judgment; and (4) the residue among the owners of the property sold, according to their respective shares.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 472 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 472. Exhausting other securities to pay lien

 Whenever any party to the action or who holds a lien upon the property or any part thereof has other securities for the payment of the amount of such lien, the court may, in its discretion, order such securities to be exhausted before a distribution of the proceeds of sale, or may order a just deduction to be made from the amount of the lien on the property on account thereof.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 473 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 473. Effect of proceedings to determine liens or rights of parties

 The proceedings to ascertain the amount of the liens and to determine their priority, as above provided, or those hereinafter authorized to determine the rights of parties to funds paid into court, shall not delay the sale nor affect any other party whose rights are not involved in such proceedings.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 474 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 474. Distribution of proceeds or payment into court

 The proceeds of sale and the securities taken by the referees, or any part thereof, shall be distributed by them to the persons entitled thereto whenever the court so directs. If no such direction be given all such proceeds and securities shall be paid into court or deposited as directed by the court.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 475 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 475. Continuing action to determine rights to proceeds of sales

 When the proceeds of sales of any shares or parcel belonging to persons who are parties to the action, and who are known, are paid into court, the action may be continued as between such parties for the determination of their respective claims thereto, which shall be ascertained and adjudged by the court. Further testimony may be taken in court, or by a referee, at the discretion of the court, and the court may, if necessary, require such parties to present the facts or law in controversy, by pleading, as in an original action.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 476 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 476. Procedure for sale; notice

 All sales of real property made by the referee shall be made by public auction to the highest bidder, in the manner required for the sale of real property on execution. The notice shall state the time, place, and terms of sale, and if the property or any part of it is to be sold subject to a prior estate, charge, or lien, that shall be stated in the notice.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 477 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 477. Order of sale; credit terms

 The court shall, in the order of sale, direct the terms of credit which may be allowed for the purchase money of any portion of the premises of which it may direct a sale on credit; and for that portion of which the purchase money is required by the provisions hereinafter contained to be invested for the benefit of unknown owners and parties out of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 478 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 478. Acceptance of mortgages and other securities on sale

 The referees may take separate mortgages and other securities for the whole or convenient portions of the purchase money of such parts of the property as are directed by the court to be sold on credit, in the name of the clerk of the court, and his successors in office; and for the shares of any known owner of full age, in the name of such owner.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 479 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 479. Disposal of estate for life or years

 When the estate of any tenant for life or years, in any undivided part of the property in question, has been admitted by the parties, or ascertained by the court to be existing at the time of the order of sale, and the person entitled to such estate has been made a party to the action, such estate may be first set off out of any part of the property, and a sale made of such parcel, subject to the prior unsold estate of such tenant therein; but if in the judgment of the court a due regard to the interest of all the parties requires that such estate be also sold, the sale may be so ordered.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 480 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 480. Compensation for sale of estate for life or years

 Any person entitled to an estate for life or years in any undivided part of the property, whose estate has been sold, shall be entitled to receive such sum in gross as may be deemed upon principles of law applicable to annuities a reasonable satisfaction for such estate, and which the person so entitled shall consent to accept instead thereof, by an instrument duly acknowledged or proved in the same manner as deeds for the purpose of record, and filed with the clerk.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 481 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 481. Determination of value of estate for life or years; investment

 If a consent is not given, as provided in section 480 of this title, before the report of sale, the court shall ascertain and determine what proportion of the proceeds of the sale, after deducting expenses, will be a just and reasonable sum to be invested for the benefit of the person entitled to such estate for life or years, and shall order the same to be deposited in court for that purpose.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 482 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 482. Determination of amount of investment

 The proportion of the proceeds of the sale to be invested as provided in section 481 of this title shall be ascertained and determined in the several cases as follows: (1) If an estate in dower is included in the order of sale, its proportion shall be one-third of the proceeds of the sale of the property, or of the sale of the undivided share in such property upon which the claim of dower existed. (2) If an estate by curtesy, or other estate for life or years, is included in the order of sale, its proportion shall be the whole proceeds of the sale of the property, or of the sale of the undivided share thereof in which such estate may be. In all cases the proportion of the expenses of the proceeding shall be deducted from the proceeds of the sale.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 483 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 483. Unknown owners of estate for life or years

 If the persons entitled to an estate for life or years are unknown, the court shall provide for the protection of their rights in the same manner, as far as may be, as if they were known and had appeared.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 484 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 484. Provision for vested or contingent future right or estate

 In all cases of sales in partition, when it appears that any person has a vested or contingent future right or estate in any of the property sold, the court shall ascertain and settle the proportional value of such contingent or vested right or estate according to the principles of law applicable to annuities and survivorship, and shall direct such proportion of the proceeds of sale to be invested, secured or paid over in such manner as to protect the rights and interests of the parties.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 485 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 485. Notice of terms of sale; separate sale

 In all cases of sales of property, the terms shall be made known at the time. If the premises consist of distinct farms or lots, they shall be sold separately, or otherwise if the court so directs.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 486 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 486. Interest in purchase by referees or guardians

 Neither the referees, nor any person for the benefit of any of them, shall be interested in any purchase. No guardian of an infant party shall be interested in the purchase of any real property, being the subject of the action, except for the benefit of the infant. All sales contrary to the provisions of this section shall be void.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 487 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 487. Referees' report of sale

 After completing the sale, the referees shall report the same to the court, with a description of the different parcels of lands sold to each purchaser, the name of the purchaser, the price paid or secured, the terms and conditions of the sale, and the securities, if any, taken. The report shall be filed with the clerk.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 488 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 488. Exceptions to report of sale; confirmation of sale; conveyances

 The report of sale may be excepted to by any party entitled to a share of the proceeds, in like manner and with like effect as in ordinary cases. If the sale is confirmed, the order of confirmation shall direct the referees to execute conveyances and take securities pursuant to such sale, which acts they are hereby authorized to do. Such order shall have the effect to discharge the property of the estate or interest of every person mentioned in section 460 of this title, and of tenants for life or years of the property sold, and shall be binding and conclusive upon all such persons, as if the same were a decree for the partition of such property, and upon all persons whomsoever as to the regularity of the proceedings concerning such sale, except as provided in section 486 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 489 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 489. Purchase by party or encumbrancer

 When a party entitled to a share of the property or an encumbrancer entitled to have his lien paid out of the sale becomes a purchaser, the referees may take his receipt for so much of the proceeds of the sale as belongs to him.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 490 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 490. Investment of proceeds of sale

 When there are proceeds of sale belonging to an unknown owner, or to a person without the Virgin Islands who has no legal representatives within it, or when there are proceeds arising from the sale of an estate subject to the prior estate of a tenant for life or years, which are paid into the court or otherwise deposited by order of the court, the same may be invested under such order in securities on interest for the benefit of the persons entitled thereto.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 491 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 491. Taking securities or making investments in name of clerk

 When the security for the proceeds of sale is taken, or when an investment of any such proceeds is made, it shall be done, except as herein otherwise provided, in the name of the clerk of the court and his successors in office who shall hold the same for the use and benefit of the parties interested, subject to the order of the court.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 492 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 492. Taking securities in name of parties; agreement, delivery and receipt

 When security is taken by the referees on a sale, and the parties interested in such security, by an instrument in writing under their hands delivered to the referee, agree upon the shares and proportions to which they are respectively entitled, or when shares and proportions have been previously adjudged by the court, such securities shall be taken in the names of and payable to the parties respectively entitled thereto, and shall be delivered to such parties upon their receipt therefor. Such agreement and receipt shall be returned and filed with the clerk.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 493 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 493. Duties of clerk as to securities and investments

 The clerk in whose name a security is taken or by whom an investment is made, and his successors in office, shall receive the interest and principal as it becomes due, and apply and invest the same as the court may direct; and shall file in his office all securities taken and keep an account in a book provided and kept for that purpose in the clerk's office, free for inspection by all persons, of investments and moneys received by him thereon and the disposition thereof.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 494 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 494. Compensation for unequal partition

 When it appears that the partition cannot be made equal between the parties, according to their respective rights, without prejudice to the rights and interests of some of them, the court may adjudge compensation to be made by one party to another on account of inequality of partition. Such compensation shall not be required to be made to others by owners unknown nor by infants unless in case of an infant it appears that he has personal property sufficient for that purpose, and that his interest will be promoted thereby.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 495 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 495. Payments to guardian of infant

 When the share of an infant is sold the proceeds of the sale may be paid by the referees making the sale to his general guardian, or the special guardian appointed for him in the action, upon such guardian giving the security required by law or directed by order of the court.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 496 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 496. Payments to guardian of incompetent person

 The guardian who may be entitled to the custody and management of the estate of an insane person, or other person adjudged incapable of conducting his own affairs, whose interest in real property has been sold, may receive in behalf of such person his share of the proceeds of such real property from the referees on executing, with sufficient sureties, an undertaking, approved by the court, that he will faithfully discharge the trust reposed in him, and will render a true and just account to the person entitled, or to his legal representatives.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 497 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 21 - Actions for Partition of Real Property|§ 497. Costs of partition

 The costs of partition, including fees of referees and other disbursements, shall be paid by the parties respectively entitled to share in the lands divided, in proportion to their respective interests therein, and may be included and specified in the judgment. In that case there shall be a lien on the several shares, and the judgment may be enforced by execution against the parties separately. When, however, a litigation arises between some of the parties only, the court may require the expenses of such litigation to be paid by the parties thereto, or any of them.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 531 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 23 - Foreclosure of Liens Upon Real Property|§ 531. Foreclosure of liens, including mortgages; recovery of debt

 (a) A lien upon real property, other than that of a judgment, whether created by mortgage or otherwise, shall be foreclosed, and the property adjudged to be sold to satisfy the debt secured thereby, by an action of an equitable nature. In such action, in addition to the judgment of foreclosure and sale, if it appears that a promissory note or other personal obligation for the payment of the debt has been given by the mortgagor or other lien debtor, or by any other person as principal or otherwise, the court shall also adjudge a recovery of the amount of such debt against such person or persons, as the case may be, as in the case of an ordinary judgment for the recovery of money. (b) Prior to the entry of any judgment of foreclosure, the parties must provide the Court with evidence that a good faith effort was made to settle the matter through mediation. The type and form of the mediation report shall be prescribed by the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 532 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 23 - Foreclosure of Liens Upon Real Property|§ 532. Other lien holders as defendants

 Any person having a lien subsequent to the plaintiff upon the same property or any part thereof, or who has given a promissory note or other personal obligation for the payment of the debt or any part thereof, secured by the mortgage or other lien which is the subject of the action, shall be made a defendant in the action. Any person having a prior lien may be made defendant at the option of the plaintiff, or by the order of the court when deemed necessary.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 533 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 23 - Foreclosure of Liens Upon Real Property|§ 533. Judgment where a defendant has lien; priority of liens

 When it is adjudged that any of the defendants have a lien upon the property, the court shall make a like judgment in relation thereto and the debt secured thereby as if such defendant were a plaintiff in the action. When a judgment is given foreclosing two or more liens upon the same property or any portion thereof in favor of different persons not united in interest such judgment shall determine and specify the order of time, according to their priority, in which the debts secured by such lien shall be satisfied out of the proceeds of the sale of the property.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 534 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 23 - Foreclosure of Liens Upon Real Property|§ 534. Enforcement of judgment of foreclosure

 (a) The judgment may be enforced by execution as an ordinary judgment for the recovery of money, except as in this section otherwise or specially provided. (b) When a judgment of foreclosure and sale is given, an execution may issue thereon against the property adjudged to be sold. If the judgment is in favor of the plaintiff only, the execution may issue as in ordinary cases, but if it is in favor of different persons not united in interest, it shall issue upon the joint request of such persons, or upon the order of the court, on the motion of either of them. (c) When the judgment is also against the defendants or any one of them in person, and the proceeds of the sale of the property upon which the lien is foreclosed are not sufficient to satisfy the judgment as to the sum remaining unsatisfied to either, the judgment may be enforced by execution as in ordinary cases. When in such case the judgment is in favor of different persons not united in interest, it shall be deemed a separate judgment as to such persons, and may be enforced accordingly.