reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 32c (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 3 - Limitation of Actions|§ 32c. Exceptions

 Sections 32b does not apply if (1) the personal injury, death, or property damage resulted from (A) an intentional act or gross negligence; (B) fraud or misrepresentation; (C) breach of an express warranty or guarantee; (D) a defective product. In this subparagraph, “product” means an object that has intrinsic value, is capable of delivery as an assembled whole or as a component part, and is introduced into trade or commerce; (E) prolonged exposure to hazardous waste; or (2) the facts that would give notice of a potential cause of action are intentionally concealed; (3) the provisions of this section are waived by contract; or (4) the facts that would constitute accrual of a cause of action of a minor are not discoverable in the exercise of reasonable care by the minor's parent or guardian.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 33 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 3 - Limitation of Actions|§ 33. Actions on accounts

 In an action to recover a balance due upon a mutual, open, and current account, where there have been reciprocal demands between the parties, the cause of action shall be deemed to have accrued from the date of the last item proved in the account on either side; but whenever a period of more than one year shall elapse between any of a series of items or demands, they are not to be deemed such an account.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 34 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 3 - Limitation of Actions|§ 34. Public corporations

 The limitations prescribed in this chapter shall apply to actions brought in the name of any public corporation in the Virgin Islands, or for its benefit, in the same manner as to actions by private parties.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 35 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 3 - Limitation of Actions|§ 35. Absence or concealment

 (a) If a cause of action accrues against any person who is out of the Virgin Islands or concealed therein, such action may be commenced within the terms herein respectively limited, after the return of such person into the Virgin Islands, or the end of his concealment. (b) If, after a cause of action accrues, any person departs from and resides out of the Virgin Islands, or conceals himself, the time of his absence or concealment shall not be computed as any part of the time limited for the commencement of such action.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 36 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 3 - Limitation of Actions|§ 36. Persons under disability

 (a) If any person entitled to bring an action mentioned in this chapter is, at the time the cause of action accrues— (1) under the age of twenty-one years; or (2) insane; or (3) imprisoned on a criminal charge, or in execution under sentence of a court for a term less than his natural life— the time of such disability shall not be a part of the time limited for the commencement of the action, but the period within which the action shall be brought shall not be extended in any case longer than two years after such disability ceases. (b) No person shall avail himself of a disability unless it existed when his right of action accrued. (c) When two or more disabilities exist at the time the right of action accrues the limitation shall not attach until all such disabilities are removed.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 37 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 3 - Limitation of Actions|§ 37. Death before expiration of limitation period

 (a) If a person entitled to bring an action dies before the expiration of the time limited for the commencement thereof, and the cause of action survives, an action may be commenced by his personal representatives, after the expiration of the time and within one year from his death. (b) If a person against whom an action may be brought dies before the expiration of the time limited for the commencement thereof, and the cause of action survives, an action may be commenced against his personal representatives after the expiration of that time, and within six months after the issuing of letters testamentary or of administration.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 38 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 3 - Limitation of Actions|§ 38. Commencement stayed by injunction or statutory prohibition

 When the commencement of an action is stayed by injunction or a statutory prohibition, the time of the continuance of the injunction or prohibition shall not be a part of the time limited for the commencement of the action.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 39 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 3 - Limitation of Actions|§ 39. Acknowledgment or promise

 No acknowledgment or promise shall be sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract, whereby to take the case out of the operation of this chapter, unless the same is contained in some writing, signed by the party to be charged thereby; but this section shall not alter the effect of any payment of principal or interest.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 40 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 3 - Limitation of Actions|§ 40. Payment of principal or interest

 Whenever any payment of principal or interest has been or shall be made upon an existing contract, whether it be a bill of exchange, promissory note, bond, or other evidence of indebtedness, if such payment be made after the same shall have become due, the limitation shall commence from the time the last payment was made.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 41 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 3 - Limitation of Actions|§ 41. Cause of action arising outside Virgin Islands

 When the cause of action has arisen in any State, Commonwealth, Territory, or country between nonresidents of the Virgin Islands, and by the laws of the State, Commonwealth, Territory, or country where the cause of action arose an action cannot be maintained thereon by reason of the lapse of time, no action shall be maintained thereon in the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 71 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 5 - Parties|§ 71. Assignment of things in action

 In the case of an assignment of a thing in action, the action by the assignee shall be without prejudice to any setoff or other defense existing at the time of or before notice of the assignment; but this subsection shall not apply to a negotiable instrument transferred in good faith and upon valuable consideration before due. In the case of an assignment of an account in a secured transaction, the provisions of Article 9 of Title 11A shall apply.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 72 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 5 - Parties|§ 72. Wife as party

 A wife may receive the wages of her personal labor, and maintain an action therefor in her own name and hold the same in her own right, and she may prosecute and defend all actions for the preservation and protection of her rights and property as if unmarried.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 73 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 5 - Parties|§ 73. Guardian ad litem

 A guardian ad litem appointed for an infant or incompetent person under Rule 17(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure shall not be liable to pay costs of action; and he shall be allowed a reasonable sum for his charges as such guardian, to be fixed by the court, and taxed in the bill of costs.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 74 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 5 - Parties|§ 74. Seduction

 (a) A father, or in case of his death or desertion of his family, the mother, may maintain an action as plaintiff for the seduction of a minor daughter, and the guardian for the seduction of a ward, though the daughter or ward is not living with or in the service of the plaintiff at the time of the seduction or afterwards, and there is no loss of service. (b) An unmarried female over twenty-one years of age may maintain an action as plaintiff for her own seduction, and may recover therein such damages as may be assessed in her favor. The prosecution of an action to judgment by the father, mother, or guardian, as described in subsection (a) of this section, shall be a bar to an action by such unmarried female.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 75 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 5 - Parties|§ 75. Action for injury to a minor child

 A legitimate or legitimized natural father, who has not abandoned his family, and the legitimate or natural mother may individually or jointly institute an action for the injury of a minor child, and a guardian for the injury of a ward, when such injury is caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another. The death of the child or ward shall not abate the parent's or guardian's cause of action for his injury as to damages accruing before his death. In every action under this section such damages may be given as under the circumstances of the case may be just. If an action arising out of the same wrongful act or neglect may be maintained pursuant to section 76 of this title for the wrongful death of any such child, the action authorized by this section shall be consolidated therewith for trial on motion of any interested party.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 77 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 5 - Parties|§ 77. Survival of tort actions

 A thing in action arising out of a wrong which results in physical injury to the person or out of a statute imposing liability for such injury shall not abate by reason of the death of the wrongdoer or any other person liable for damages for such injury, nor by reason of the death of the person injured or of any other person who owns any such thing in action. When the person entitled to maintain such an action dies before judgment, the damages recoverable for such injury may include loss of earnings and expenses sustained or incurred as a result of the injury may include damages for pain, suffering and disfigurement, or punitive or exemplary damages, or prospective profits or earnings after the date of death. The damages recovered shall form part of the estate of the deceased. Nothing in this section shall be construed as making such a thing assignable.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 78 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 5 - Parties|§ 78. Substitution of parties

 No action shall abate by the death or disability of a party or by the transfer of any interest therein, if the cause of action survives or continues. In case of the death or disability of a party, the court may at any time within two years thereafter, on motion, allow the action to be continued by or against his personal representatives or successor in interest.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 79 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 5 - Parties|§ 79. Death of party after decision of action

 An action for a wrong shall not abate by the death of any party after the decision has been given therein, but the action shall proceed thereafter in the same manner as in cases where the cause of action survives.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 80 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 5 - Parties|§ 80. Taxpayers' suits

 A taxpayer may maintain an action to restrain illegal or unauthorized acts by a territorial officer or employee, or the wrongful disbursement of territorial funds.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 111 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 7 - Commencement of Actions; Service of Process|§ 111. Service on infant or incompetent person

 In the cases referred to in Rule 4(d)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, service shall be made as follows: (1) Upon an infant, by delivering a copy of the summons and of the complaint to the infant personally, and also to his father, mother, or guardian, or if there is none within the Virgin Islands then to any person having the care or control of such infant, or with whom he resides, or in whose service he is employed. (2) Upon a person judicially declared to be of unsound mind or incapable of conducting his own affairs for whom a guardian has been appointed, by delivering a copy of the summons and of the complaint to the defendant personally and also to such guardian.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 113 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 7 - Commencement of Actions; Service of Process|§ 113. Failure to serve all parties

 When the action is against two or more defendants, and the summons is served on one or more but not all of them, the plaintiff may proceed as follows: (1) If the action is against defendants jointly indebted upon a contract, he may proceed against the defendants served, unless the court otherwise directs; and if he recovers judgment, it may be entered against all the defendants thus jointly indebted so far only as that it may be enforced against the joint property of all and the separate property of the defendant served, and if they are subject to arrest, against the persons of the defendants served; or, (2) If the action is against the defendants severally liable, he may proceed against the defendants served in the same manner as if they were the only defendants; or, (3) If all the defendants have been served, judgment may be taken against any of them severally, when the plaintiff would be entitled to judgment against such defendant or defendants, if the action had been against them, or any of them alone.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 114 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 7 - Commencement of Actions; Service of Process|§ 114. Proof of service of process

 (a) Proof of the service of the summons and complaint or of the deposit thereof in the post office, shall be as follows: (1) If the service or deposit in the post office is by the marshal or his deputy, the certificate of such officer; (2) If by any other person, his affidavit thereof; (3) In case of publication, the affidavit of the publisher or his representative, together with a copy of the publication; or (4) The written admission of the defendant. (b) In the case of service otherwise than by publication, the certificate, affidavit, or admission must state the time and place of service; and in case of deposit in the post office, the time and place thereof.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 115 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 7 - Commencement of Actions; Service of Process|§ 115. When jurisdiction acquired; voluntary appearance

 From the time of the service of the summons or the allowance of a provisional remedy the court shall be deemed to have acquired jurisdiction and to have control of all the subsequent proceedings. A voluntary appearance of the defendant shall be equivalent to personal service of the summons upon him.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 171 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 171. Limitation; length of imprisonment

 No person shall be arrested in any civil action except as provided in this chapter. No person upon civil arrest shall be detained in custody for a longer period than three months.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 172 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 172. Cases in which arrest may be made

 (a) A male defendant may be arrested in the following cases: (1) In an action for the recovery of money or damages when the defendant is about to remove from the Virgin Islands with intent to defraud his creditors, or when the action is for any injury to person, or for willfully injuring or wrongfully taking, detaining, or converting property. (2) In an action for a fine or penalty, or for money, or property embezzled or fraudulently misapplied or converted to his own use by a public officer, or by an attorney, or by an officer or agent of a corporation in the course of his employment as such, or by any factor, agent, broker, or other person in a fiduciary capacity, or for any misconduct or neglect in office or in a professional employment. (3) In an action to recover the possession of personal property unjustly detained, when the property or any part thereof has been concealed, removed, or disposed of, so that it cannot be found or taken by the marshal, and with intent that it should not be so found or taken, or with the intent to deprive the plaintiff of the benefit thereof. (4) When the defendant has been guilty of a fraud in contracting a debt, or incurring the obligation for which the action is brought, or in concealing or disposing of the property for the taking, detention, or conversion of which the action is brought. (5) When the defendant has removed or disposed of his property, or is about to do so, with intent to defraud his creditors. (b) No female shall be arrested in any action except for injury to person, character or property.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 173 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 173. Procedure for arrest

 (a) At any time after the commencement of a civil action, and before judgment, the plaintiff shall, in the discretion of the court, be entitled to a writ of arrest for the defendant for any of the causes specified in section 172 of this title, whenever he makes and files with the clerk of the court in which such action is pending, an affidavit that the plaintiff has a sufficient cause of action therein, and that the case is one of those mentioned in section 172 of this title. The affidavit may be either positive or upon information or belief; but if the latter, it shall state the facts upon which the belief is founded. (b) The plaintiff shall also make and file with the clerk an undertaking with sufficient sureties, in a sum not less than $100, and equal to the amount for which the plaintiff prays judgment. Such undertaking shall be conditioned that the plaintiff will pay all costs that may be adjudged to the defendant and all damages which he may sustain by reason of the arrest if the same be wrongful or without sufficient cause, not exceeding the amount specified in the undertaking. The plaintiff shall also file with his undertaking the affidavits of the sureties therein from which it must appear that such sureties are residents of the Virgin Islands and that they are, taken together, 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 arrest is qualified to become surety in an undertaking for an arrest. (c) The writ of arrest shall be issued by the court in its discretion, and shall require the marshal forthwith to arrest the defendant and hold him to bail in the amount specified in the undertaking, and that in default thereof he keep him in custody until discharged by law, and to return the writ to the court from which it issued, with his doings indorsed thereon, when required by the plaintiff at any time before the defendant may be arrested, or afterwards whenever the defendant shall have been discharged from the arrest on bail or otherwise. (d) The plaintiff shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the marshal with the writ a copy of the affidavit upon which the warrant was issued, subscribed by himself or attorney. The marshal, upon the delivery of the writ, shall endorse thereon the date of the receipt and upon the arrest of the defendant shall deliver to him a copy of the writ and such copy of the affidavit. The marshal shall execute the writ by arresting the defendant and keeping him in custody until discharged by law.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 174 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 174. Discharge of defendant upon bail or deposit

 The defendant, at any time before execution, shall be discharged from the arrest, either upon giving bail or upon depositing the amount mentioned in the writ of arrest, as provided in this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 175 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 175. Form of bail

 The defendant may give bail by executing a written undertaking in favor of the plaintiff with a corporate surety or two or more individual sureties unless the court determines that one individual surety is sufficient, stating their places of residence, to the effect that the defendant shall at all times render himself amenable to the process of the court during the pendency of the action, and to such as may be issued to enforce the judgment therein. If the defendant was arrested for the cause mentioned in paragraph (3) of section 172 of this title, an undertaking to the same effect as that provided by section 216 of this title shall be given.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 176 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 176. Proceedings against sureties

 In case of the failure to comply with any undertaking given under this chapter, the liability of the sureties may be enforced on motion without the necessity of an independent action. By entering into an undertaking under this chapter, the sureties submit themselves to the jurisdiction of the court and irrevocably appoint the clerk of the court as their agent upon whom any papers affecting their liability may be served. The motion and such notice of the motion as the court prescribes may be served on the clerk of the court, who shall forthwith mail copies to the sureties at their last known addresses.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 177 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part II - Provisional Remedies|Chapter 21 - Civil Arrest and Bail|§ 177. Exoneration of bail

 The bail may be exonerated, either by the death of the defendant or his imprisonment in the penitentiary, or by his legal discharge from the obligation to render himself amenable to the process.