United States ex rel. Bull v. McClay

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• holding that private nuisance claims are governed by statute but statute is merely declaratory of the common law
• summarizing the history of the Virgin Islands’ private nuisance statute and the judicial opinions from Alaska that interpreted the statute on which the Virgin Islands’ private nuisance statute is patterned
• “All available laws, including the 1921 Codes were classified according to subject matter, carefully edited, and arranged into 34 titles” to enact “a comprehensive code for the U.S. Virgin Islands.” (citation and quotation marks omitted)

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