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

Universal Citation: V.I. Code tit. 28, § 7 (2019)
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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 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.

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