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V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1221 (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|§ 1221. Order discharging assignee from liability

 When the final order of distribution has been made, and the assignee has made return and satisfactory proof that he has obeyed all orders of distribution and paid the money as therein directed, the court shall enter an order discharging the assignee from all liability on account of said trust. Before such order is made, a time shall be fixed for hearing the matter and notice thereof shall be given in the manner provided with reference to the first meeting of creditors.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1222 (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|§ 1222. Accounting by assignee; removal

 The judge may at any time cite the assignee to make an account, and shall do so whenever the assignee neglects or refuses to account at any time when he is required so to do by this chapter. The judge may enforce his orders in the premises by attachment as for contempt, and may punish disobedience thereto by fine and imprisonment as in other cases of contempt. Upon complaint of any creditor, and upon good cause shown, he may remove any assignee chosen by the creditors and restore the clerk to the execution of the trust and make all necessary orders in the premises.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1223 (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|§ 1223. Partnerships

 A partnership estate may be assigned without including the individual property of the persons composing the partnership, or one or more of the partners may include his or their individual estate in the assignment. In that case separate inventories of the property and creditors of the estate shall be made and filed as provided in this chapter. The failure of the assignment as to one estate does not affect it as to any other. The partnership estate shall first be applied to the payment of partnership debts, and individual estates shall first be applied to the payment of individual debts and the balance, if any, in the latter case shall be applied to the payment of debts of the former description, while the balance, if any, in former case belonging to an individual partner shall be applied to the payment of his individual debts.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1224 (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|§ 1224. Other remedies of creditors

 The existence of an assignment, or the fact that any creditor has proven his claim against an assigned estate shall not affect the right of such creditor to pursue any remedy at law or in equity for the collection of his claim against all or any of the assignors or all or any of their estate or property. The any of their estate or property. The proving of a claim against either an individual or a partnership estate shall not affect the right of a creditor to attack the validity of the assignment.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1225 (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|§ 1225. Examination of assignor; orders of court

 Upon the application of the assignee or of any creditor, the court may compel, by citation or attachment, the assignor or assignors to appear in person forthwith or at such times as the court may fix, and answer under oath, such questions as may be put to them, or either of them, concerning the matter of the assignment. The assignor or the assignment. The assignor or assignors may thereupon be fully examined, upon oath, as to all matters touching their estate or property, its situation and amount, and as to whether any or what disposition has been made of the same or part thereof, and as to the names of creditors, their residence, and the amount due each. The court may also compel the completion or correction in any inventory made by the assignor or assignors, and the delivery of any money, choses in action, or property belonging to the assigned estate to the assignee. The court may compel obedience to its order in the premises by fine or imprisonment as for contempt as in other cases.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1226 (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|§ 1226. Examination of third persons

 When an affidavit is filed by any person interested in the estate, alleging that any person has, or that the affiant has good reason to and does verily believe that any person has, any property, goods, chattels, bills of exchange, promissory notes, credits, or effects of the assignor or assignors in his possession or under his control, or has knowledge of any of the property or effects of the assignor or assignors, the court may cite any such person to appear for examination. Such person may be examined, upon oath, in all respects, as to such matters as the assignor or assignors may be required to appear and be examined upon under the provisions of this chapter. The court may make any order with respect to any property or effects, found or disclosed to be in the possession or under the control of such person, which it might make with respect to property or effects in the possession of an assignor, and may enforce obedience to its orders in the premises in like manner.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1227 (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|§ 1227. Powers of assignee in collection of estate

 The assignee shall have full power, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, to sue for and recover in his own name as assignee, all and singular, the estate, property and effects, real and personal, and amounts owing upon choses in action, and to execute and give releases, acquittances, and discharges and generally to do all manner of things requisite and convenient for the speedy and effectual collection of the estate which the assignor or assignors might or could have made, given, or done, if such assignment had not been made.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1228 (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|§ 1228. Assignments void as to creditors

 (a) Every assignment shall be void as to the creditors of the assignor if — (1) it gives a preference of one debt or class of debts over another, except a preference to any person of not more than the amount due for sixty days for labor or wages; (2) it requires any creditor to release or compromise his demand; (3) it reserves any interest in the assigned property or any part thereof to the assignor or assignors, or for his or their benefit, before his or their existing debts have been paid; or (4) it confers any power upon the assignee, other or different from those contained in this chapter. (b) If the assignor or assignors fail to make the inventory required to be made by him or them by this chapter within the time required by this chapter, the assignment shall not be void, but the court may by attachment or other proper remedy compel the making and return thereof by the assignor. An omission of any property, or of the name or claim of any creditor therefor, shall not avoid the assignment.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1229 (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|§ 1229. Action to set aside fraudulent conveyance

 If the assignor or assignors have made any fraudulent conveyance or disposition of his or their property, or any part of it, or any conveyance of the same, or any part of it, in whole or in part directly or indirectly for his or their benefit, the assignee shall upon the direction in writing of a majority in number of the creditors owning two-thirds in amount of all the claims proven against the estate at the time fixed for proving the same, begin and maintain an action for the purpose of setting said conveyance aside, or having the same adjudged void, or to recover the property so conveyed in such action the assignee shall have all the rights and be entitled to all the remedies of judgment creditors of the assignor or assignors. If in such case a like action is pending in favor of any creditor or creditors, such assigned property shall be disposed of as other like property belonging to the assigned estate.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1230 (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|§ 1230. Fraudulent conveyances and preferences

 (a) If a person being insolvent, or in contemplation of insolvency, within 90 days before the making of any assignment, makes a sale, assignment, transfer, or other conveyance of any description of any part of his property, to a person who then has reasonable cause to believe him to be insolvent or in contemplation of insolvency, and such sale, assignment, transfer, or other conveyance is made with a view to prevent the property from coming to his assignee in insolvency, or to prevent the same from being distributed under the laws relating to insolvency, or to defeat the object of or in any way to impair, hinder, impede or delay the operation and effect of, or to evade any said provisions, the sale, assignment, transfer, or conveyance shall be void, and the assignee may recover the property or the assets of the insolvent. If such sale, assignment, transfer, or conveyance is not made in the usual and ordinary course of business of the debtor, that fact shall be prima facie evidence of such cause of belief. (b) If a person being insolvent, or in contemplation of insolvency, within 90 days before the making of the assignment, with a view to giving a preference to a creditor or person who has a claim against him, procures any part of his property to be attached, sequestered, or seized on execution, or makes any payment, pledge, assignment, transfer, or conveyance of any part of his property, either directly or indirectly, absolutely or conditionally, the person receiving such payment, pledge, assignment, transfer, or conveyance, or to be benefited thereby, having reasonable cause to believe such person is insolvent, or is in contemplation of insolvency, and that such payment, pledge, assignment, or conveyance is made in fraud of the laws relating to insolvency, the same shall be void, and the assignee may recover the property, or the value of it, from the person so receiving it or so to be benefited.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1231 (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|§ 1231. Penalties

 Whoever, in contemplation of making an assignment for the benefit of creditors— (1) secretes or conceals any property belonging to his estate; or, (2) parts with, conceals, destroys, alters, mutilates, or falsifies, or causes to be concealed, destroyed, altered, mutilated, or falsified, any book, deed, document, or writing relating to his estate or property; or, (3) removes, or causes to be removed, any such property, or book, deed, writing, or document out of the Virgin Islands, or otherwise disposes of any part thereof with intent to prevent its coming into the possession of the clerk or assignee, or to hinder, impede, or delay them, or either of them, in removing or receiving the same; or (4) makes any payment, gift, sale, assignment, transfer, or conveyance of any property belonging to his estate with like intent; or, (5) spends any property belonging to his estate, in gaming; or, (6) wilfully and fraudulently, with intent to defraud, conceals from his assignee or omits from his inventory, any property or effects; or, (7) having reason to suspect that any other person has presented a false or fictitious demand against his estate, fails to disclose the same to his assignee within one month after its coming to his knowledge or belief; or, (8) fraudulently attempts to account for any of his property by fictitious losses or expenses; or, (9) within three months, next before the assignment for the benefit of creditors, under the false color and pretense of carrying on business and dealing in the ordinary course of trade, obtains on credit from any person any goods or chattels with intent to defraud such person; or, (10) within three months next before the assignment for the benefit of creditors with the intent to defraud his creditors, pawns, pledges, or disposes of, otherwise than by transactions made in good faith in the ordinary way of his trade, any of his goods, chattels, or property, which have been obtained on credit and remain unpaid for — shall be imprisoned not more than four years.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1232 (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|§ 1232. Discharge of assignor from liability

 The district court may, in its discretion, after the final order of distribution, issue a further final order discharging the assignor from any and all liabilities existing on the date of the filing of the assignment.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1261 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 89 - Declaratory Judgments|§ 1261. Scope

 Courts of record within their respective jurisdictions shall have power to declare rights, status, and other legal relations whether or not further relief is or could be claimed. No action or proceeding shall be open to objection on the ground that a declaratory judgment or decree is prayed for. The declaration may be either affirmative or negative in form and effect; and such declarations shall have the force and effect of a final judgment or decree.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1262 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 89 - Declaratory Judgments|§ 1262. Power to construe, etc.

 Any person interested under a deed, will, written contract or other writings constituting a contract, or whose rights, status or other legal relations are affected by a statute, municipal ordinance, contract or franchise, may have determined any question of construction or validity arising under the instrument, statute, ordinance, contract, or franchise and obtain a declaration of rights, status or other legal relations thereunder.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1263 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 89 - Declaratory Judgments|§ 1263. Before breach

 A contract may be construed either before or after there has been a breach thereof.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1264 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 89 - Declaratory Judgments|§ 1264. Executor, etc.

 Any person interested as or through an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian or other fiduciary, creditor, devisee, legatee, heir, next of kin, or cestui que trust, in the administration of a trust, or of the estate of a decedent, an infant, lunatic, or insolvent, may have a declaration of rights or legal relations in respect thereto: (a) To ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin or others; or (b) To direct the executors, administrators, or trustees to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity; or (c) To determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1265 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 89 - Declaratory Judgments|§ 1265. Enumeration not exclusive

 The enumeration in sections 1262, 1263, and 1264 of this title, does not limit or restrict the exercise of the general powers conferred in section 1261 of this title, in any proceeding where declaratory relief is sought, in which a judgment or decree will terminate the controversy or remove an uncertainty.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1266 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 89 - Declaratory Judgments|§ 1266. Discretionary

 The court may refuse to render or enter a declaratory judgment or decree where such judgment or decree, if rendered or entered, would not terminate the uncertainty or controversy giving rise to the proceeding.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1267 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 89 - Declaratory Judgments|§ 1267. Review

 All orders, judgments and decrees under this chapter may be reviewed as other orders, judgments and decrees.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1268 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 89 - Declaratory Judgments|§ 1268. Supplemental relief

 Further relief based on a declaratory judgment or decree may be granted whenever necessary or proper. The application therefor shall be by petition to a court having jurisdiction to grant the relief. If the application be deemed sufficient, the court shall, on reasonable notice, require any adverse party whose rights have been adjudicated by the declaratory judgment or decree, to show cause why further relief should not be granted forthwith.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1269 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 89 - Declaratory Judgments|§ 1269. Procedure; jury trial; other adequate remedy

 The procedure for obtaining a declaratory judgment pursuant to this chapter shall be in accordance with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the right to trial by jury may be demanded under the circumstances and in the manner provided in Rules 38 and 39 thereof. The existence of another adequate remedy does not preclude a judgment for declaratory relief in cases where it is appropriate. The court may order a speedy hearing of an action for a declaratory judgment and may advance it on the calendar.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1270 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 89 - Declaratory Judgments|§ 1270. Construction

 This chapter is declared to be remedial; its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status and other legal relations; and is to be liberally construed and administered.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1271 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 89 - Declaratory Judgments|§ 1271. Words construed

 The word “person” wherever used in this chapter, shall be construed to mean any person, partnership, joint stock company, unincorporated association, or society, or municipal or other corporation of any character whatsoever.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1272 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 89 - Declaratory Judgments|§ 1272. Uniformity of interpretation

 This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those jurisdictions which enact it and to harmonize, as far as possible, with federal laws and regulations on the subject of declaratory judgments and decrees.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1301 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1301. Right to writ of habeas corpus

 Every person unlawfully imprisoned or restrained of his liberty, under any pretense whatever, may prosecute a writ of habeas corpus, to inquire into the cause of such imprisonment or restraint.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1302 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1302. Application for writ

 Application for the writ of habeas corpus shall be made by petition signed either by the party for whose relief it is intended or by some person in his behalf. The petition shall comply with the following requirements: (1) It shall specify that the person in whose behalf the writ is applied for is imprisoned or restrained of his liberty and the officer or person by whom, and the place where, he is so confined or restrained, naming all the parties, if they are known, or describing them, if they are not known. (2) If the imprisonment is alleged to be illegal, the petition shall state in what the alleged illegality consists. (3) The petition shall be verified by the oath of the party making the application.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1303 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1303. Power to grant writ

 The writ of habeas corpus may be granted by the district court, upon petition by or on behalf of any person restrained of his liberty.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1304 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1304. Grant of writ

 The court authorized to grant the writ, to whom a petition therefor is presented, shall grant the same without delay, if it appears that the writ ought to issue.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1305 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1305. Form of writ

 The writ shall be directed to the person having custody of or restraining the person on whose behalf the application is made, and shall command him to have the body of such person before the court before which the writ is returnable, at a time and place therein specified.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1306 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 91 - Habeas Corpus|§ 1306. Delivery and service of writ

 If the writ is directed to any ministerial officer of the court out of which it issues, it shall be delivered by the clerk to such officer without delay, as other writs are delivered for service. If it is directed to any other person it shall be delivered to such officer and be by him served upon such person by delivering the same to him without delay. If the person to whom the writ is directed cannot be found, or refuses admittance to the officer or person serving or delivering such writ it may be served or delivered by leaving it at the residence of the person to whom it is directed, or by affixing it to some conspicuous place on the outside either of his dwelling house or of the place where the party is confined or under restraint.