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← 42 VI 34 - Andrews v. Nathaniel

Andrews v. Nathaniel’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
August 2017
most recently cited

2 district ·

Relationships

Relies on McNamara v. Christian · Leo Egan Land Co., Inc. v. Heelan · Griles v. Griles · First National Bank of Wray v. McGinnis · Antilles Insurance v. James

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “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.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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