Title 5, Judicial Procedure

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 defe…

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 jurisd…

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.

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 indo…

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…

(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 …

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, tou…

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.

(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…

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 weekl…

(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 otherw…