2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code
Title 1 - General Provisions
Chapter 1 - Virgin Islands Code
§ 4. Application of common law; restatements
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V.I. Code tit. 1, § 4 (2019)
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The rules of the common law, as expressed in the restatements of the law approved by the American Law Institute, and to the extent not so expressed, as generally understood and applied in the United States, shall be the rules of decision in the courts of the Virgin Islands in cases to which they apply, in the absence of local laws to the contrary.
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