Oppression

1. Law
2. US Virgin Islands Code
3. Crimes
4. Extortion, Oppression, and Threats
5. Oppression

• Whoever, being a public officer, or person pretending to be a public officer, and under the pretense or color of any process or other legal authority—

  • (1) arrests any person or detains him against his will;

  • (2) seizes or levies upon any property;

  • (3) dispossesses any one of any lands or property; or

  • (4) does any other act, whereby another person is injured in his person, property or rights—

    without a regular process or other lawful authority therefor, commits oppression and shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.

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