48 USC § 1406f - Judicial process; title of criminal prosecutions

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identifier: "/us/usc/t48/s1406f"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "48 USC § 1406f - Judicial process; title of criminal prosecutions"
title_number: 48
title_name: "TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS"
section_number: "1406f"
section_name: "Judicial process; title of criminal prosecutions"
chapter_number: 7
chapter_name: "VIRGIN ISLANDS"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "CIVIL GOVERNMENT"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, § 37, 49 Stat. 1817.)"
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# § 1406f. Judicial process; title of criminal prosecutions

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.”

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**Source Credit**: (June 22, 1936, ch. 699, § 37, 49 Stat. 1817.)