Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 7 — Virgin Islands
§ 1406f. Judicial process; title of criminal prosecutions
Statutory text
All judicial process shall run in the name of “United States of America, scilicet, the President of the United States”, and all penal or criminal prosecutions in the local courts shall be conducted in the name of and by authority of “the People of the Virgin Islands of the United States.”
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 74–699 § 37 · 49 Stat. 869
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1406f
(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, § 37, 49 Stat. 1817.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, § 37, 49 Stat. 1817.)
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Credits
(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, § 37, 49 Stat. 1817.)