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V.I. Code tit. 5, § 178 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 178. Service of undertaking on plaintiff; refusal to accept

 Within three days after the execution of the undertaking of the bail the marshal having the defendant in custody shall deliver to the plaintiff or his attorney, or such other person as the plaintiff may direct, a certified copy of the undertaking, with the date of the arrest indorsed thereon. In any other case the marshal may mail such copy within the same time to the plaintiff or his attorney, within the Virgin Islands, or to either of them as the plaintiff may direct. The plaintiff, within ten days from the delivery of such copy, or fifteen days from the mailing of the same, if sent by mail, may serve upon the marshal for the defendant in custody a notice that he does not accept the bail, or he shall be deemed to have accepted it, and the marshal shall be exonerated from liability. If no notice be served within ten days, the original undertaking shall be filed with the court where the action is pending.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 179 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 179. Notice of justification of sureties

 On the receipt of notice that the plaintiff does not accept the bail, the marshal or defendant may, within ten days thereafter, give to the plaintiff or his attorney notice of the justification of the same or other sureties, specifying the place of residence and occupation of the latter, before the judge or clerk of the court where the action is pending, at a specified time and place, the time to be not less than five nor more than ten days thereafter. In case other bail is given, there shall be a new undertaking, in the form and to the effect prescribed in section 175 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 180 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 180. Qualifications of sureties for bail

 (a) The qualifications of individual sureties for bail shall be as follows: (1) Each of them shall be a resident of the Virgin Islands. (2) Over and above all debts and liabilities, and exclusive of property exempt from execution, each surety shall be worth the amount specified in the writ of arrest or the amount to which the same may be reduced as provided in this chapter, except that — (A) the judge or clerk on justification may allow more than two sureties to justify severally for less than such amount, if the whole justification is equivalent to double such amount; and (B) if the court determines that one surety is sufficient, he shall be worth double such amount. (b) A corporate surety must be authorized and licensed to do business as a surety in the Virgin Islands. (c) No attorney, marshal, police officer, clerk of any court, or other officer of any court shall be permitted to become bail in any action.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 181 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 181. Justification of sureties for bail

 For the purpose of justification each of the individual sureties for bail, or an authorized agent of the corporate surety for bail, shall appear before the judge or clerk at the time and place mentioned in the notice, and may be examined on oath, on the part of the plaintiff, touching his sufficiency, in such manner as the judge or clerk in his discretion may think proper. The examination shall be reduced to writing and subscribed by the individual surety or the agent for the corporate surety, if required by the plaintiff.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 182 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 182. Allowance of bail

 If the judge or clerk allows the bail as sufficient, he shall annex the examination to the undertaking, indorse his allowance thereon, and cause them to be filed with the clerk of the court in which the action is pending. The marshal shall thereupon be exonerated from liability.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 183 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 183. Deposit in lieu of bail

 (a) The defendant may at the time of his arrest, instead of giving bail, deposit with the marshal the amount mentioned in the writ. Thereupon the marshal shall give the defendant a certificate of the deposit made and the defendant shall be discharged from custody. (b) The marshal shall, within ten days after the deposit, pay the same into the court, and take from the clerk receiving the same two certificates of such payment, the one of which he shall deliver to the plaintiff or his attorney and the other to the defendant. For any default in making such payment, the same proceedings may be had on the official bond of the marshal to collect the sum deposited as in other cases of delinquency. (c) If money is deposited, as provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, bail may be given and justified upon notice, at any time before judgment, and on the filing of the undertaking and justification with the clerk the money deposited shall be refunded by such clerk to the defendant. (d) When money has been deposited, if it remains on deposit at the time of an order or judgment for the payment of money to the plaintiff, the clerk shall, under the direction of the court, apply the same in satisfaction thereof, and, after satisfying the judgment, shall refund the surplus, if any, to the defendant. If the judgment is in favor of the defendant the clerk shall refund to him the whole sum deposited and remaining unapplied.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 184 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 184. Expense of maintenance of defendant

 There shall be allowed to the marshal for the food and maintenance of any defendant arrested under the provisions of this chapter two dollars per day, and the plaintiff shall be liable in the first instance for such expense, and if required by the marshal shall pay the same weekly in advance; and such expense so paid shall be added to the disbursements taxed or accruing in the case, and be collected as other disbursements. If the plaintiff fails to pay such expense for three days after a demand of payment, the marshal may discharge the defendant from custody.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 185 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 185. Vacation of arrest or reduction of bail

 (a) A defendant arrested may, at any time before judgment, apply on motion to the court in which the action is pending, upon notice to the plaintiff, to vacate the writ of arrest. (b) If a motion is made upon affidavits or other proofs on the part of the defendant, but not otherwise, the plaintiff may oppose the same by affidavits or other proofs in addition to those upon which the writ was issued. If upon the hearing of such motion it satisfactorily appears that there was not sufficient cause to allow the writ, or other good cause which would entitle the defendant to be discharged on habeas corpus, the same shall be vacated, or in case he has given bail the court may discharge the same or reduce the amount thereof on good cause shown.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 211 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 23 - Claim and Delivery of Personal Property|§ 211. Right to claim immediate delivery

 In an action to recover possession of personal property the plaintiff, at any time after the action is commenced, and before judgment, may claim the immediate delivery of such property, as provided in this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 212 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 23 - Claim and Delivery of Personal Property|§ 212. Affidavit of plaintiff

 When a delivery is claimed an affidavit shall be made by the plaintiff, or by some one in his behalf, showing: (1) That the plaintiff is the owner of the property claimed (particularly describing it) or is lawfully entitled to the possession thereof by virtue of a special property therein, the facts in respect to which shall be set forth; (2) That the property is wrongfully detained by the defendant; (3) The alleged cause of the detention thereof, according to his best knowledge, information and belief; (4) That the same has not been taken for a tax, assessment or fine, pursuant to a statute, or seized under an execution or attachment against the property of the plaintiff; or, if so seized, that it is by statute exempt from such seizure; and (5) The actual value of the property.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 213 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 23 - Claim and Delivery of Personal Property|§ 213. Endorsement of affidavit to marshal

 The plaintiff may thereupon by an indorsement upon the affidavit, require the marshal to take the property from the defendant and deliver it to the plaintiff.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 214 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 23 - Claim and Delivery of Personal Property|§ 214. Undertaking by plaintiff; taking of property; service on defendant

 Upon the receipt of the affidavit and endorsement thereon, with a written undertaking executed by two or more sufficient sureties approved by the marshal, to the effect that they are bound in double the value of the property as stated in the affidavit for the prosecution of the action for the return of the property to the defendant, if return thereof be adjudged, and for the payment to him of such sum as may for any cause be recovered against the plaintiff, and after at least five days' written notice to the defendant of the plaintiff's intent to take possession of said property, and opportunity of the defendant to be heard thereon, the marshal shall forthwith take the property described in the affidavit, if it is in the possession of the defendant or his agent, and retain it in his custody. He shall also, without delay, serve on the defendant a copy of the affidavit, indorsement thereon, and undertaking, by delivering the same to him personally, if he can be found, or to his agent from whose possession the property is taken; or, if neither can be found, by leaving them at the usual place of abode of either with some person of suitable age and discretion; or, if neither have any known place of abode, by putting them in the post office directed to the defendant at the post office nearest to him.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 215 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 23 - Claim and Delivery of Personal Property|§ 215. Exception to sureties by defendant

 The defendant may, within three days after the service of a copy of the affidavit and undertaking give notice to the marshal that he excepts to the sufficiency of the sureties. If he fails to do so, he shall be deemed to have waived all objection to them. When the defendant excepts, the sureties shall justify on notice in like manner as upon bail on arrest. The marshal shall be responsible for the sufficiency of the sureties until the objection to them is waived, as above provided, or until they justify or new sureties are substituted and justified. If the defendant excepts to the sureties, he cannot reclaim the property, as provided in section 216 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 216 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 23 - Claim and Delivery of Personal Property|§ 216. Undertaking by defendant for return of property

 At any time before the delivery of the property to the plaintiff the defendant may, if he does not except to the sureties of the plaintiff, require the return thereof upon giving to the marshal a written undertaking, executed by two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the marshal, to the effect that they are bound in double the value of the property as stated in the affidavit of the plaintiff, for the delivery thereof to the plaintiff, if such delivery be adjudged, and for the payment to him of such sum as may, for any cause, be recovered against the defendant. If a return of the property is not so required within three days after the taking and service of a copy of the affidavit and undertaking to a defendant, it shall be delivered to the plaintiff, except as provided in section 221 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 217 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 23 - Claim and Delivery of Personal Property|§ 217. Justification of defendant's sureties; delivery of property

 The defendant's sureties, upon a notice to the plaintiff or his attorney of not less than two nor more than six days, shall justify before the judge or the clerk of the court in which the action is pending, in the same manner as upon bail on arrest. Upon such justification the marshal shall deliver the property to the defendant. The marshal shall be responsible for the defendant's sureties until they justify, or until justification is completed or expressly waived, and may retain the property until that time; but if they or others in their place fail to justify at the time and place appointed he shall deliver the property to the plaintiff.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 218 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 23 - Claim and Delivery of Personal Property|§ 218. Qualifications and justification of sureties

 Qualifications of sureties and their justification shall be the same as prescribed in respect to bail upon an order of arrest.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 219 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 23 - Claim and Delivery of Personal Property|§ 219. Property concealed in building or inclosure

 If the property or any part thereof is concealed in a building or inclosure the marshal shall publicly demand its delivery. If it is not delivered he shall cause the building or inclosure to be broken open and take the property into his possession, and if necessary he may call to his aid the government of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 220 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 23 - Claim and Delivery of Personal Property|§ 220. Keeping of property by marshal; insurance

 When the marshal has taken the property as in this chapter provided, he shall keep it in a secure place and deliver it to the party entitled thereto upon receiving his lawful fees for taking and his necessary expenses for keeping the same. The marshal shall insure the property upon the request of, and payment of the premium by, any interested party. In the discretion of the court, such premium may be taxed as costs.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 221 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 23 - Claim and Delivery of Personal Property|§ 221. Claim by third persons

 If the property taken is claimed by any other person than the defendant or his agent, and such person makes affidavit of his title thereto or his right to the possession thereof, stating the grounds of such title or right, and serves the same upon the marshal before the delivery of the property to the plaintiff, the marshal shall not be bound to keep the property or deliver it to the plaintiff unless the plaintiff, on demand of him or his agent, shall indemnify the marshal against such claim by an undertaking, executed by two sufficient sureties, accompanied by their affidavits that they are each worth double the value of the property as specified in the affidavit of the plaintiff, over and above their debts and liabilities, exclusive of property exempt from execution. No claim to such property by any other person than the defendant or his agent shall be valid against the marshal unless made as aforesaid; and notwithstanding such claim when so made he may retain the property a reasonable time to demand such indemnity.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 222 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 23 - Claim and Delivery of Personal Property|§ 222. Filing and return of marshal

 The marshal shall file the affidavit, with his proceedings thereon including an inventory of the property taken, with the clerk of the court in which the action is pending within twenty days after taking the property mentioned therein.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 251 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 251. Cases in which attachment may be made

 The plaintiff, at the time of issuing the summons, or at any time afterwards, may have the property of the defendant attached as security for the satisfaction of any judgment that may be recovered, unless the defendant gives security to pay such judgment, as in this chapter provided, in the following cases: (1) In an action upon a contract, express or implied for the direct payment of money, and which is not secured by mortgage, lien, or pledge upon real or personal property, or, if so secured, when such security has been rendered nugatory by the act of the defendant. (2) In an action upon a contract, express or implied, against a defendant not residing in the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 252 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 252. Affidavit for attachment

 A writ of attachment shall be issued by the clerk of the court in which the action is pending, whenever the plaintiff or anyone in his behalf makes and files an affidavit showing: (1) That the defendant is indebted to the plaintiff (specifying the amount of such indebtedness over and above all legal set-offs or counterclaims) upon a contract, express or implied, for the direct payment of money, and that the payment of the same has not been secured by any mortgage, lien, or pledge upon real or personal property; and (2) That the sum for which the attachment is asked is an actual, bona fide, existing debt, due and owing from the defendant to the plaintiff, and that the attachment is not sought nor the action prosecuted to hinder, delay, or defraud any creditor of the defendant.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 253 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 253. Undertaking; sureties

 After filing the affidavit with the clerk, the plaintiff shall be entitled to have the writ issued as soon as he files with the clerk his undertaking, with one or more sureties, in a sum not less than one hundred dollars, and equal to the amount for which the plaintiff demands judgment, and to the effect that the plaintiff will pay all costs that may be adjudged to the defendant, and all damages that he may sustain by reason of the attachment if the same be issued wrongfully or without sufficient cause, not exceeding the sum specified in the undertaking. With the undertaking the plaintiff shall also file the affidavits of the sureties from which affidavits it must appear that such sureties are qualified, and that, taken together, they are worth double the amount of the sum specified in the undertaking, over all debts and liabilities and property exempt from execution. No person not qualified to become surety for bail upon an arrest is qualified to become surety in an undertaking for an attachment.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 254 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 254. Form of writ

 The writ shall be directed to the marshal and shall require him to attach and safely keep all the property of such defendant not exempt from execution, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy the plaintiff's demand, the amount of which shall be stated in conformity with the complaint, together with costs and expenses.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 255 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 255. Property subject to attachment; return and inventory

 The rights or shares which such defendant may have in the stock of any association or corporation, together with the interest and profits thereon, and all other property of such defendant in the Virgin Islands, not exempt from execution, shall be liable to be attached. The marshal shall note upon the writ the date of its delivery to him, and shall make a full inventory of the property attached, and return the same with the writ.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 256 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 256. Execution of writ

 The marshal to whom the writ is delivered shall execute the same without delay, as follows: (1) Real property shall be attached by leaving with the occupant thereof, or if there be no occupant, in a conspicuous place therein, a copy of the writ certified by the marshal. (2) Personal property capable of manual delivery to the marshal, and not in the possession of a third person, shall be attached by taking it into his custody. (3) Other personal property shall be attached by leaving a certified copy of the writ, and a notice specifying the property attached, with the person having possession of the same, or if it be a debt, then with the debtor, or if it be rights or shares in the stock of an association or corporation or interest or profits thereof, then with such person or officer of such association or corporation as Rule 4 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure authorizes a summons to be served upon.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 257 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 25 - Attachment|§ 257. Priority of plaintiff's rights; liability of third persons

 (a) From the date of the attachment until it is discharged or the writ executed, the plaintiff as against third persons shall be deemed a purchaser in good faith and for a valuable consideration of the property, real or personal, attached, subject to the conditions prescribed in section 258 of this title as to real property. (b) From the time of the service of a copy of the writ and notice until the attachment is discharged or any judgment recovered by the plaintiff is satisfied, any person, association, or corporation mentioned in paragraph (3) of section 256 of this title shall be liable to the plaintiff for the amount of the property, stock, or debts specified in the notice, unless such property, stock, or debts are delivered, transferred, or paid to the marshal.