Title 28 — Property
25 chapters · 384 sections in this title.
28 V.I.C. § 1 Definitions
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As used in this title, unless otherwise provided or the context requires a different meaning—“conveyance” includes every instrument in writing except a last will and testament, whatever may be its form and by whatever name it may be known in law, by which any estate or interest i…
28 V.I.C. § 10 Covenant for payment in mortgage
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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 co…
28 V.I.C. § 11 Adverse possession
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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.
28 V.I.C. § 2 Interest conveyed; words of inheritance not required for fee simple
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An otherwise effective inter vivos or testamentary conveyance of real property transfers the entire interest which the conveyor has and has the power to convey unless an intent to transfer a less interest is effectively manifested. No words of inheritance or other special words s…
28 V.I.C. § 3 Quitclaim
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A deed of quitclaim and release shall be sufficient to pass all the real estate which the grantor could lawfully convey by a deed of bargain and sale.
28 V.I.C. § 4 Purported conveyance of greater estate by tenant for life or years
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A conveyance made by a tenant for life or years purporting to grant a greater estate than he possesses or can lawfully convey does not work a forfeiture of his estate, but passes to the grantee all the estate which such tenant can lawfully convey.
28 V.I.C. § 5 Conveyance, mortgage, or devise of property not in possession
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Any act which would be effective as a conveyance inter vivos or as a mortgage or as a testamentary disposition of property when the land or thing other than land is in the possession of the conveyor, is effective as a conveyance of the conveyor's interest therein, when the land o…
28 V.I.C. § 6 Remainder to heirs, children, etc.; Rule in Shelley's Case abolished
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(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 suc…
28 V.I.C. § 7 Remedies of tenant in common; joint tenancies; tenants by the entireties
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(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 …
28 V.I.C. § 8 Descent, solely or jointly
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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 proporti…
28 V.I.C. § 9 Implied covenants generally
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No covenant shall be implied in any conveyance of real estate, whether such conveyance contains special covenants or not.