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V.I. Code tit. 28, § 6 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 1 - Estates in Property Generally|§ 6. Remainder to heirs, children, etc.; Rule in Shelley's Case abolished

 (a) If any person by last will devises any real estate to any person for the term of such person's life, and after his death, to his or her children or heirs, or right heirs in fee, such devise shall vest an estate for life only in such devisee, and remainder in fee simple in such children. (b) Where any estate, real or personal, is given by deed or will to any person for his life, and after his death to his heirs, or to the heirs of his body, the conveyance shall be construed to vest an estate for his life only in such person, and a remainder in fee simple in his heirs or the heirs of his body.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 7 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 1 - Estates in Property Generally|§ 7. Remedies of tenant in common; joint tenancies; tenants by the entireties

 (a) A tenant in common may maintain any proper action or proceeding against the cotenant for receiving more than his joint proportion of the rents or profits of the estate owned by them in common. (b) Every conveyance or devise of lands or an interest therein, except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, made to two or more persons, other than to executors and trustees as such, shall create a tenancy in common in such estate, unless it is expressly declared in the conveyance or devise that the grantees or devisees shall take the land as joint tenants. (c) A conveyance or devise of real property to husband and wife jointly creates an estate by the entirety unless otherwise provided in the deed or will. (d) Upon the divorce or annulment of the marriage of a husband and wife they shall become tenants in common as to any real property then held by them as tenants by the entirety. (e) No entailed estates shall be valid in the Virgin Islands and all provisions of any deed or will creating or attempting to create such estate shall be void.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 8 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 1 - Estates in Property Generally|§ 8. Descent, solely or jointly

 When there is but one person entitled to inherit he shall take and hold the inheritance solely; when an inheritance or a share of an inheritance descends to several persons they shall, except as otherwise provided in section 7 of this title, take as tenants in common, in proportion to their respective rights.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 9 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 1 - Estates in Property Generally|§ 9. Implied covenants generally

 No covenant shall be implied in any conveyance of real estate, whether such conveyance contains special covenants or not.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 10 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 1 - Estates in Property Generally|§ 10. Covenant for payment in mortgage

 A mortgage does not imply a covenant for the payment of the sum thereby intended to be secured. When there is no express covenant for such payment in the mortgage, and no bond or other separate instrument to secure such payment has been given, the remedies of the mortgagee are confined to the property mentioned in the mortgage.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 11 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 1 - Estates in Property Generally|§ 11. Adverse possession

 The uninterrupted, exclusive, actual, physical adverse, continuous, notorious possession of real property under claim or color of title for 15 years or more shall be conclusively presumed to give title thereto, except as against the Government.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 41 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 3 - Conveyances of Property|§ 41. Manner of executing conveyance

 A conveyance of lands, or of any estate or interest therein, may be made by deed, signed by the person from whom the estate or interest is intended to pass, being of lawful age, or by his lawful agent or attorney and acknowledged or proved, and recorded as directed in this title, without any other act or ceremony.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 42 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 3 - Conveyances of Property|§ 42. Execution and acknowledgment of deeds

 (a) Deeds executed within the Virgin Islands of lands or any interest in lands therein shall be executed in the presence of two witnesses, who shall subscribe their names to the same as such; and the persons executing such deeds may acknowledge the execution thereof as provided in chapter 5 of this title. (b) Deeds executed in any State of the United States or in any foreign country may be executed according to the laws of such State or country and the execution thereof may be acknowledged as provided in chapter 5 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 43 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 3 - Conveyances of Property|§ 43. Proof by subscribing witness of execution of conveyance

 Proof of the execution of any conveyance may be made before any officer authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds and shall be made by a subscribing witness thereto who shall state his own place of residence and that he knows the person described in and who executed the conveyance. Such proof shall not be taken unless the officer is personally acquainted with the subscribing witness or has satisfactory evidence that he is the same person who was a subscribing witness to the instrument.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 44 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 3 - Conveyances of Property|§ 44. Compelling attendance of witness to prove execution of conveyance

 (a) Upon the application to the district court of any grantee, or of any person claiming under him, verified by the oath of the applicant, setting forth that the grantor is dead, out of the Virgin Islands, or refuses to acknowledge his deed, and that any witness to such conveyance refuses to appear and testify touching the execution thereof, and that such conveyance cannot be proved without his evidence, a subpoena may issue requiring such witness to appear and testify before the court touching the execution of such conveyance. (b) Every person duly served with such subpoena who, without reasonable cause, refuses or neglects to appear, or after appearing refuses to answer upon oath touching the matter, shall forfeit to the injured party a sum of not more than $100, and may also be committed to prison as for a contempt of court, there to remain until he submits to answer on oath as aforesaid.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 45 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 3 - Conveyances of Property|§ 45. Proof of deed by proving handwriting

 When any grantor is dead, out of the Virgin Islands, or refuses to acknowledge his deed, and all the subscribing witnesses to such deed are also dead or reside out of the Virgin Islands, the deed may be proved before the district court, by proving the handwriting of the grantor and of any subscribing witness thereto.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 46 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 3 - Conveyances of Property|§ 46. Certificate of court as to proof of conveyance

 Whenever the district court takes proof of any conveyance it shall issue a certificate, on the deed, over the signature of the judge thereof and the seal of the court, which shall set forth the things hereinbefore required to be done, known, or proved, together with the names of the witnesses examined, and their places of residence, and the substance of the evidence given by them.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 47 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 3 - Conveyances of Property|§ 47. Construction of conveyance; description of property

 The following are the rules for construing the descriptive part of a conveyance of real property when the construction is doubtful and there are no other sufficient circumstances to determine it: (1) Where there are certain definite and ascertained particulars in the description, the addition of others which are indefinite, unknown, or false does not frustrate the conveyance, but it is to be construed by such particulars, if they constitute a sufficient description to ascertain its application. (2) When permanent and visible or ascertained boundaries or monuments are inconsistent with the measurement, either of lines, angles, or surfaces, the boundaries or monuments are paramount. (3) Between different measurements which are inconsistent with each other that of angles is paramount to that of surfaces and that of lines paramount to both. (4) When a road or stream of water not navigable is the boundary, the rights of the grantor to the middle of the road or the thread of the stream are included in the conveyance, except where the road or bed of the stream is held under another title. (5) When the shoreline is the boundary, the rights of the grantor to the line of mean high tide, subject to the right of the public to make reasonable recreational use of the shoreline, as “shoreline” is defined in section 402 of chapter 13 of Title 12 of this Code, are included in the conveyance. (6) When the description refers to a map, and that reference is inconsistent with other particulars, it controls them, if it appears that the parties acted with reference to the map; otherwise the map is subordinate to other definite and ascertained particulars.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 81 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 5 - Recognition of Acknowledgments|§ 81. Acknowledgments within the Virgin Islands

 The acknowledgment of any instrument may be made in the Virgin Islands before— (1) a notary public authorized to perform notarial acts in the Virgin Islands; or (2) a judge, clerk, or deputy clerk of any court of record in the Virgin Islands having a seal; or (3) a commissioner or recorder of deeds.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 82 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 5 - Recognition of Acknowledgments|§ 82. Recognition of notarial acts performed outside the Virgin Islands

 For the purposes of this chapter, “notarial acts” means acts which the laws of the Virgin Islands authorize notaries public of the Virgin Islands to perform, including the administering of oaths and affirmations, taking proof of execution and acknowledgments of instruments, and attesting documents. Notarial acts may be performed outside the Virgin Islands for use in the Virgin Islands with the same effect as if performed by a notary public of the Virgin Islands by the following persons authorized pursuant to the laws and regulations of other governments in addition to any other person authorized by the laws of the Virgin Islands. (a) A notary public authorized to perform notarial acts in the place in which the act is performed. (b) A judge, clerk, or deputy clerk of any court of record in the place in which the notarial act is performed. (c) An officer of the foreign service of the United States, a consular agent or any other person authorized by regulation of the United States Department of State to perform notarial acts in the place in which the act is performed. (d) A commissioned officer in active service with the armed forces of the United States and any other person authorized by regulation of the armed forces to perform notarial acts if the notarial act is performed for one of the following or his dependents: A merchant seaman of the United States, a member of the armed forces of the United States or any other person serving with or accompanying the armed forces of the United States. (e) Any other person authorized to perform notarial acts in the place in which the act is performed.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 83 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 5 - Recognition of Acknowledgments|§ 83. Authentication of authority of officer

 (a) If the notarial act is performed by any of the persons described in subsections (a) to (d) of section 82 of this chapter other than a person authorized to perform notarial acts by the laws or regulations of a foreign country, the signature, rank or title and serial number, if any, of the person are sufficient proof of the authority of a holder of that rank or title to perform the act. Further proof of his authority is not required. (b) If the notarial act is performed by a person authorized by the laws or regulations of a foreign country to perform the act, there is sufficient proof of the authority of that person to act if any of the following exist: (1) Either a foreign service officer of the United States resident in the country in which the act is performed or a diplomatic or consular officer of the foreign country resident in the United States certifies that a person holding that office is authorized to perform the act; (2) The official seal of the person performing the notarial act is affixed to the document; or (3) The title and indication of authority to perform notarial acts of the person appears either in a digest of foreign law or in a list customarily used as a source of such information. (c) If the notarial act is performed by a person other than one described in subsections (a) and (b) there is sufficient proof of the authority of that person to act if the clerk of a court of record in the place in which the notarial act is performed certifies to the official character of that person and to his authority to perform the notarial act. (d) The signature and title of the person performing the act are prima facie evidence that he is a person with the designated title and that the signature is genuine.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 84 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 5 - Recognition of Acknowledgments|§ 84. Certificate of person taking acknowledgment

 The person taking an acknowledgment shall certify that the person acknowledging appeared before him and acknowledged he executed the instrument; and the person acknowledging was known to the person taking the acknowledgment or that the person taking the acknowledgment has satisfactory evidence that the person acknowledging was the person described in and who executed the instrument.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 85 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 5 - Recognition of Acknowledgments|§ 85. Recognition of certificate of acknowledgment

 The form of a certificate of acknowledgment used by a person whose authority is recognized under section 82 of this chapter shall be accepted in the Virgin Islands if one of the following is true: (a) The certificate is in a form prescribed by the laws or regulations of the Virgin Islands; (b) The certificate is in a form prescribed by the laws applicable in the place in which the acknowledgment is taken; or (c) The certificate contains the words “acknowledged before me”, or their substantial equivalent.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 86 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 5 - Recognition of Acknowledgments|§ 86. Certificate of acknowledgment

 The words “acknowledged before me” mean (1) that the person acknowledging appeared before the person taking the acknowledgment; and (2) that he acknowledged he executed the instrument; and (3) that, in the case of: (i) a natural person, he executed the instrument for the purposes therein stated; (ii) a corporation, the officer or agent acknowledged he held the position or title set forth in the instrument and certificate, he signed the instrument on behalf of the corporation by proper authority, and the instrument was the act of the corporation for the purpose therein stated; (iii) a partnership, the partner or agent acknowledged he signed the instrument on behalf of the partnership by proper authority and he executed the instrument as the act of the partnership for the purposes therein stated; (iv) a person acknowledging as principal by an attorney in fact, he executed the instrument by proper authority as the act of the principal for the purposes therein stated; (v) a person acknowledging as a public officer, trustee, administrator, guardian, or other representative, he signed the instrument by proper authority and he executed the instrument in the capacity and for the purposes therein stated; and (4) that the person taking the acknowledgment either knew or had satisfactory evidence that the person acknowledging was the person named in the instrument of certificate.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 87 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 5 - Recognition of Acknowledgments|§ 87. Short form of acknowledgment

 (a) The forms of acknowledgment set forth in this section may be used and are sufficient for their purposes under any law of the Virgin Islands. The forms shall be known as “statutory forms of acknowledgment” and may be referred to by that name. The authorization of the forms in this section does not preclude the use of other forms. (b) For an individual acting in his own rights: Territory of the Virgin Islands Judicial Division of The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this (date) by (name of person acknowledged). (Signature of person taking acknowledgment) (Title or rank) (Serial number, if any). (c) For a corporation: Territory of the Virgin Islands Judicial Division of The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this (date) by (name of officer or agent, title of officer or agent) of (name of corporation acknowledging) a (state or place of incorporation) corporation, on behalf of the corporation. (Signature of person taking acknowledgment) (Title or rank) (Serial number, if any). (d) For a partnership: Territory of the Virgin Islands Judicial Division of The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this (date) by (name of acknowledging partner or agent), partner (or agent) on behalf of (name of partnership), a partnership. (Signature of person taking acknowledgment) (Title or rank) (Serial number, if any). (e) For an individual acting as principal by an attorney in fact: Territory of the Virgin Islands Judicial Division of The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this (date) by (name of attorney in fact) as attorney in fact on behalf of (name of principal). (Signature of person taking acknowledgment) (Title or rank) (Serial number, if any). (f) By any public officer, trustee or personal representative: Territory of the Virgin Islands Judicial Division of The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this (date) by (name and title of position). (Signature of person taking acknowledgment) (Title or rank) (Serial number, if any).
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 88 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 5 - Recognition of Acknowledgments|§ 88. Acknowledgments not affected by this chapter

 A notarial act performed prior to October 20, 1981, is not affected by this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 89 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 5 - Recognition of Acknowledgments|§ 89. Uniformity of interpretation

 This chapter shall be so interpreted as to make uniform the laws of those jurisdictions which enact it.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 90 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 5 - Recognition of Acknowledgments|§ 90. Acknowledgments under laws of other states

 Notwithstanding any provision in this chapter contained the acknowledgment of any instrument without the Virgin Islands in compliance with the manner and form prescribed by the laws of the place of its execution, if in a state of the United States, verified by the official seal of the officer before whom it is acknowledged, and authenticated in the manner provided by paragraph (2) of section 89 of this title, shall have the same effect as an acknowledgment in the manner and form prescribed by the laws of the Virgin Islands for instruments executed within the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 91 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 5 - Recognition of Acknowledgments|§ 91. Acknowledgments by persons serving with the armed forces of the United States within or without the United States

 In addition to the acknowledgments of instruments in the manner and form and as otherwise authorized by this chapter, any person serving in or with the armed forces of the United States may acknowledge the same wherever located before any commissioned officer in active service of the armed forces of the United States with the rank of Second Lieutenant or higher in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps, or Ensign or higher in the Navy or United States Coast Guard. The instrument shall not be rendered invalid by the failure to state therein the place of execution or acknowledgment. No authentication of the officer's certificate of acknowledgment shall be required but the officer taking the acknowledgment shall indorse thereon or attach thereto a certificate substantially in the following form:On this the  day of , 19 , before me, , the undersigned officer, personally appeared , known to me (or satisfactorily proven) to be serving in or with the armed forces of the United States and to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument acknowledged that  he  executed the same for the purposes therein contained. And the undersigned does further certify that he is at the date of this certificate a commissioned officer of the rank stated below and is in the active service of the armed forces of the United States.Signature of Officer.Rank of Officer and CommandTo which attached
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 92 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 5 - Recognition of Acknowledgments|§ 92. Acknowledgment not affected by this chapter

 No acknowledgment taken before September 1, 1957, shall be affected by anything contained on this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 93 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 5 - Recognition of Acknowledgments|§ 93. Uniformity of interpretation

 This chapter shall be so interpreted as to make uniform the laws of those jurisdictions which enact it.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 121 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 7 - Recording of Instruments|§ 121. Place of recording

 Documents affecting real property, which are required or permitted to be recorded, shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds in the judicial division in which the property is located. If a document affects real property located in both judicial divisions, it shall be recorded in both offices. No deed shall be recorded by the recorder of deeds unless proof, in writing, is submitted that all property taxes due relative to the real property being conveyed have been paid. Such proof shall be obtained from the Department of Finance for a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 122 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 7 - Recording of Instruments|§ 122. Conveyances which may be recorded

 Every conveyance acknowledged or proved or certified by the district court as prescribed in chapter 3 of this title shall be entitled to be recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds; but such instrument, if not acknowledged, proved, or certified, shall not be recorded by the recorder of deeds.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 123 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 7 - Recording of Instruments|§ 123. Certificate of reception and recording; time of recording

 The recorder of deeds shall certify upon each conveyance recorded by him the time when it was received and the reference to the book and the page where it is recorded. Every conveyance shall be considered as recorded at the time it was so received.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 124 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 7 - Recording of Instruments|§ 124. Unrecorded conveyance void as to subsequent innocent purchaser

 Every conveyance of real property hereafter made within the Virgin Islands which is not filed for record shall be void against any subsequent innocent purchaser in good faith and for a valuable consideration of the same real property, or any portion thereof, whose conveyance is first duly recorded.