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V.I. Code tit. 5, § 484 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 484. Notice of sale of property on execution

 (a) Before the sale of property on execution, a written or printed notice of the time and place of sale, particularly describing the property shall be— (1) posted in a public place in or near the office of the clerk of the court in the judicial division or jurisdiction in which the sale is to take place; and (2) published in a newspaper which is published in the judicial division in which the sale is to take place. (b) In the case of personal property, such notice shall be posted and published once not less than ten days prior to the day of sale. (c) In the case of real property, such notice shall be posted for four weeks prior to the day of sale and shall be published once a week for the same period.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 485 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 485. Sale of property by auction

 All sales of property upon execution shall be made by auction at any time between nine o'clock in the morning and four o'clock in the afternoon. After sufficient property has been sold to satisfy the execution no more shall be sold. Neither the officer holding the execution nor his deputy shall become a purchaser or be interested in any purchase at such sale. When the sale is of personal property capable of manual delivery and not in the possession of a third person, association or corporation it shall be within view of those who attend the sale and be sold in such parcels as are likely to bring the highest price, and when the sale is of real property and consists of several known lots or parcels they shall be sold separately or otherwise, as is likely to bring the highest price, or when a portion of such real property is claimed by a third person and he requires it to be sold separately, such portion of it shall be sold separately.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 486 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 486. Postponement of sale

 If, at the time appointed for the sale, the marshal should be prevented from attending at the place appointed, or, being present, should deem it for the advantage of all concerned to postpone the sale for want of purchasers, or other sufficient cause, he shall postpone the sale giving notice of every adjournment by public proclamation made at the same time. The marshal for like causes may also adjourn the sale from time to time, not exceeding thirty days beyond the day at which the writ is made returnable, with the consent of the plaintiff, indorsed upon the writ and approved by the court.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 487 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 487. Bill of sale; delivery of personal property

 When the purchaser of any personal property capable of manual delivery, and not in the possession of a third person, association, or corporation, shall pay the purchase money, the marshal shall deliver to him the property, and if desired shall give him a bill of sale containing an acknowledgment of the payment. In all other sales of personal property the marshal shall give the purchaser a bill of sale with the like acknowledgment.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 488 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 488. Execution more than 5 years after judgment

 Whenever, after the entry of judgment, a period of five years shall elapse without an execution being issued on such judgment, thereafter an execution shall not issue except as in this section provided: (1) The party in whose favor a judgment was given shall file a motion with the clerk of the court where the judgment was entered for leave to issue an execution. The motion shall state the names of the parties to the judgment, the date of its entry, and the amount claimed to be due thereon, or the particular property on which the possession was thereby adjudged to such party remaining undelivered. The motion shall be subscribed and verified in like manner as a complaint in an action. (2) At any time after filing such motion the party may cause a summons to be served on the judgment debtor in like manner and with like effect as in an action. In case such judgment debtor is dead, the summons may be served upon his representative by publication as in the case of a non-resident, or by actual service of the summons. (3) The summons shall be substantially the same as in an action, but instead of a notice therein required it shall state the amount claimed or the property sought to be recovered, in the manner prescribed in subdivision (1) of this section. (4) The judgment debtor, or his representatives in case of his death, may file an answer to such motion within the time allowed to answer a complaint in an action, alleging any defense to such motion which may exist. If no answer is filed within the time prescribed the motion shall be allowed of course. (5) The word “representative” in this section shall be deemed to include any or all of the persons mentioned in subdivision (2) of section 473 of this title, in whose possession property of the judgment debtor may be which is liable to be taken and sold or delivered in satisfaction of the execution and not otherwise. (6) The order shall specify the amount for which execution is to issue, or the particular property possession of which is to be delivered; it shall be entered in the minutes and docketed as a judgment.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 489 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 489. Confirmation of sale of real property

 Whenever real property is sold on execution the provisions of this section shall apply to the subsequent proceedings: (1) The plaintiff in the writ of execution shall be entitled, on motion therefore, to have an order confirming the sale, unless the judgment debtor, or his representative in case of his death, files with the clerk his objections thereto within five days after the return thereof. If no such objections are filed within such five days, the clerk shall issue an order confirming the sale. (2) If such objections are filed, the court shall, within 30 days of the date of the sale, rule on such objections, or shall hear arguments on such objections and rule within 30 days of such hearing; otherwise the objections shall be deemed denied and notwithstanding such objections, the court shall allow the order confirming the sale, unless on the hearing of the motion it shall satisfactorily appear that there were substantial irregularities in the proceedings concerning the sale, to the probable loss or injury of the party objecting. In the later case, the court shall disallow the motion and direct that the property be resold, in whole or in part, as the case may be, as upon an execution received on that date. (3) Upon the return of the execution, the marshal shall pay the proceeds of the sale to the clerk, who shall then apply the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in satisfaction of the judgment. If an order of resale is afterwards made, and the property sells for a greater amount to any person other than the former purchaser, the clerk shall first repay to such purchaser the amount of his bid out of the proceeds of the latter sale. (4) Upon a resale the bid of the purchaser at the former sale shall be deemed to be renewed and continue in force, and no bid shall be taken except for a greater amount. An order confirming a sale shall be a conclusive determination of the regularity of the proceedings concerning such sale, as to all persons, in any other action, or proceeding whatever. (5) If, after the satisfaction of the judgment, there are any proceeds of the sale remaining, the clerk shall pay such proceeds to the judgment debtor, or his representatives, as the case may be, at any time before the order is made, upon the motion to confirm the sale, provided such party files with the clerk a waiver of all objections made or to be made to the proceedings concerning the sale; but if the sale is confirmed, such proceeds shall be paid to such party of course, otherwise, they shall remain in the custody of the clerk until the sale of the property has been disposed of.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 490 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 490. Eviction of purchaser on reversal of judgment

 If the purchaser of real property sold on execution, or his successors in interest, are evicted therefrom in consequence of the reversal of the judgment, he or they may recover the price paid, with legal interest and the costs and disbursements of the action by which he or they were evicted, from the plaintiff in the writ of execution.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 491 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 491. Contribution among judgment debtors; repayment of surety

 When property liable to an execution against several persons is sold thereon, and more than a due proportion of the judgment is levied upon the property of one of them, or one of them pays without a sale more than his proportion, he may compel contribution from the others. When a judgment is against several, and is upon an obligation or contract of one of them as security for another, and the surety pays the amount, or any part thereof, either by sale of his property or before sale, he may compel repayment from the principal. In such cases the person so paying or contributing shall be entitled to the benefit of the judgment to enforce contribution or repayment, if within thirty days after his payment he files with the clerk of the court where the judgment was rendered notice of his payment and claim to contribution or repayment; upon filing such notice the clerk shall make an entry thereof in the margin of the docket where the judgment is entered.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 492 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 492. Redemption of real property; certificate

 Upon a sale of real property, when the estate is less than a leasehold of two years' unexpired term, the sale shall be absolute. In all other cases such property shall be subject to redemption as hereinafter provided in this chapter. At the time of sale the marshal shall give to the purchaser a certificate of the sale containing: (1) A particular description of the property sold; (2) The price bid for each distinct lot or parcel; (3) The whole price paid; and (4) When subject to redemption, it shall be so stated. The matters contained in such certificate shall be substantially stated in the marshal's return of his proceedings upon the writ.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 493 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 493. Persons who may redeem

 Property sold subject to redemption, as provided in section 492 of this title, or any part thereof separately sold, may be redeemed by the following persons, or their successors in interest: (1) The judgment debtor, or his successor in interest, in the whole or any part of the property separately sold. (2) A creditor having a lien by judgment, or mortgage, on any portion of the property, or any portion of any part thereof separately sold, subsequent in time to that on which the property was sold. The persons mentioned in this subdivision, after having redeemed the property, are to be termed redemptioners.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 494 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 494. Redemption by lien creditor from purchaser

 A lien creditor may redeem the property within sixty days from the date of the order confirming the sale by paying the amount of the purchase money with interest at the legal rate per annum thereon from the time of sale, together with the amount of any taxes which the purchaser may have paid thereon; and if the purchaser is also a creditor having a lien prior to that of the redemptioner, the amount of such lien with interest.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 495 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 495. Successive redemptions by other lien creditors

 If the property is redeemed as provided in section 494 of this title, any other lien creditor may, within sixty days from the last redemption, again redeem it on paying the sum paid on the last redemption, with interest at the legal rate per annum thereon from the date of the last preceding redemption in addition, together with any taxes which the last redemptioner may have paid thereon and, unless his lien is prior to that of such redemptioner, the amount of such lien, with interest. The property may be again, and as often as any lien creditor or redemptioner is disposed, redeemed from the last previous redemptioner, within sixty days from the date of the last redemption, on paying the sum paid on the last previous redemption, with interest at the legal rate per annum thereon from the date of such previous redemption, together with the amount of any taxes paid thereon by such last redemptioner, and the amount of any liens held by such last redemptioner prior to his own, with interest.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 496 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 496. Redemption by judgment debtor

 The judgment debtor or his successor in interest may redeem the property at any time prior to the confirmation of sale on paying the amount of the purchase money, with interest at the legal rate per annum thereon from the date of sale, together with the amount of any taxes which the purchaser may have paid thereon after the purchase. If the judgment debtor does not redeem until after the confirmation of the sale, thereafter he shall redeem within six months from such order of confirmation and not otherwise.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 497 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 497. Conveyance by marshal

 If redemption is not made as prescribed in this chapter, or when redemption is made and a period of sixty days elapses without any other redemption, the purchaser or the redemptioner, as the case may be, shall be entitled to a conveyance by the marshal. If the judgment debtor redeems at any time before the time for redemption expires, the effect of the sale shall terminate, and he shall be restored to his estate.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 498 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 498. Procedure for redemption

 The mode of redeeming shall be as provided in this section. The person seeking to redeem may redeem by paying to the marshal the sum required. The marshal shall give the person redeeming a certificate, as in case of sale on execution, adding therein the sum paid on redemption, from whom redeemed, and the date thereof and shall at once give notice of such redemption to the party from whom redeemed. A party seeking to redeem shall submit to the marshal the evidence of his right thereto, as follows: (1) If he is a lien creditor, a copy of the judgment under which he claims the right to redeem, certified by the clerk of the court where such judgment is docketed, or if he seeks to redeem upon a mortgage, the certificate of the record thereof. (2) A copy of any assignment necessary to establish his claim, verified by the affidavit of himself or agent showing the amount then actually due on the judgment or mortgage. (3) If the prior redemptioner or purchaser has a lien prior to that of the lien creditor seeking to redeem, such redemptioner or purchaser shall submit to the marshal the like evidence thereof and of the amount due thereon, or the same may be disregarded. When two or more persons apply to the marshal to redeem at the same time he shall allow the person having the prior lien to redeem first, and so on. The marshal shall immediately pay the money over to the person from whom the property is redeemed, if he attends at the redemption, or if not, at any time thereafter when demanded. Where a marshal wrongfully refuses to allow any person to redeem, his right thereto shall not be prejudiced thereby and upon the submission of the evidence and the tender of the money to the marshal as herein provided, he may be required by order of the court to allow such redemption.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 499 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 499. Waste on property

 Until the expiration of the time allowed for redemption, the court or judge thereof may restrain the commission of waste on the property by order granted with or without notice, on the application of the purchaser or judgment creditor. It shall not be deemed waste for the person in possession of the property at the time of sale or entitled to possession afterwards during the period allowed for redemption to continue to use it in the same manner in which it was previously used, or to use it in the ordinary course of husbandry, or to make the necessary repairs to buildings thereon, or to use wood or timber on the property therefor or for the repair of fences, or for fuel in his family while he occupies the property.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 500 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 500. Possession, rents, and crops

 The purchaser from the day of sale until a resale or a redemption, and a redemptioner from the day of his redemption until another redemption, shall be entitled to the possession of the property purchased or redeemed, unless the same be in the possession of a tenant holding under an unexpired lease, and in such case shall be entitled to receive from such tenant the rents or the value of the use and occupation thereof during the same period. Any purchaser or prior redemptioner or both as the case may be, shall be entitled to cultivate and to reap, harvest, cut, etc., the first crop or any crops which he may have planted prior to the redemption.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 501 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 501. Proceedings in aid of execution; order for examination of judgment debtor

 After the issuance of an execution against property; and upon proof by the affidavit of the plaintiff in the writ, or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the court that the judgment debtor has property liable to execution which he refuses to apply toward the satisfaction of the judgment, such court may, by an order, require the judgment debtor to appear and answer under oath concerning the same before such court or before a district court commissioner, at a time and place specified in the order.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 502 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 502. Examination of witnesses; order for application of property or levy thereon

 Either party may examine witnesses in his behalf, and if by such examination it appear that the judgment debtor has any property liable to execution the court before whom the proceeding takes place, or to whom the report of the commissioner is made, shall make an order requiring the judgment debtor to apply the same in satisfaction of the judgment, or that such property be levied on, by execution, in the manner and with the effect as provided in this chapter or both, as may seem most likely to effect the object of the proceeding.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 503 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 503. Restraining disposition of property; contempt

 At the time of allowing the order prescribed in section 502 of this title, or at any time thereafter pending the proceeding, the court may make an order restraining the judgment debtor from selling, transferring, or in any manner disposing of any of his property liable to execution pending the proceeding. For disobeying any order or requirement authorized by this section and sections 501 and 502 of this title, the judgment debtor may be punished as for a contempt.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 504 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 504. Arrest of judgment debtor; undertaking

 Instead of the order requiring the attendance of the judgment debtor, as provided in sections 501–503 of this title, the court may, upon proof by affidavit of the party, or otherwise to its satisfaction that there is danger of the debtor leaving the Virgin Islands, or concealing himself therein, and that there is reason to believe he has property which he unjustly refuses to apply to such judgment, issue a warrant requiring the marshal to arrest him and bring him before the court. Upon being brought before the court, he may be examined on oath, and if it then appears that there is danger of the debtor leaving the Virgin Islands, and that he has property which he unjustly refuses to apply to such judgment, he may be ordered to enter into an undertaking with one or more sureties that he will from time to time attend before the court, as may be directed, and that he will not, during the pendency of the proceedings, dispose of any portion of his property not exempt from execution. In default of entering into such undertaking he may be committed to jail by warrant of the court.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 505 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 505. Proceedings against garnishee

 Whenever the marshal, with an execution against the property of the judgment debtor, applies to any person or officer mentioned in subdivision (3) of section 256 of this title for the purpose of levying on any property therein mentioned, such person or officer shall forthwith give to the marshal a certificate in the manner prescribed in section 265 of this title. If such person or officer refuses to do so, or if the certificate is unsatisfactory to the plaintiff in the writ, he may in like manner have the order prescribed in such section against such person or officer. Thereafter the proceedings upon such order shall be conducted in the manner prescribed in sections 265–273 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 506 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 43 - Enforcement of Judgments|§ 506. Public officer as garnishee

 No public officer shall be liable as garnishee for moneys in his possession as such officer, belonging to or claimed by any judgment debtor, except pursuant to an attachment or execution levied under the provisions of chapter 44 of this title.