2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 28 - Property
Chapter 15 - Actions for Nuisance, Waste, and Trespass
§ 334. Action for waste; treble damages, forfeiture, and eviction
Universal Citation: V.I. Code tit. 28, § 334 (2019)
If a guardian or a tenant in severalty or in common for life or for years, of real property, commits waste thereon, any person injured thereby may maintain an action for damages therefor against such guardian or tenant. In such action there may be judgment for treble damages, forfeiture of the estate of the party committing or permitting the waste, and of eviction from the property. Judgment of forfeiture and eviction shall only be given in favor of the person entitled to the reversion against the tenant in possession when the injury to the estate in reversion is determined in the action to be equal to the value of the tenant's estate or unexpired term, or to have been done or suffered in malice.
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