KENNETH WAYNE BOWERS v. STATE OF FLORIDA

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• language of a local statute taken from a statute of another jurisdiction shall be construed the same as it is construed in the foreign jurisdiction
• discussing provisions of Workers’ Compensation statutes borrowed from Puerto Rico
• “[A] Virgin Islands statute which has been taken from the statutes of another jurisdiction is to be construed to mean what the highest court of the jurisdiction from which it was taken had, prior to its enactment in the Virgin Islands, construed it to mean.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).