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Title 48 - Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 7 - VIRGIN ISLANDS (§§ 1391 - 1409o)
Subchapter II - CIVIL GOVERNMENT (§§ 1405 - 1406m)
Section 1406f - Judicial process; title of criminal prosecutions
CIVIL GOVERNMENT - 48 U.S.C. § 1406f (2012)
§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.”
(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, §37, 49 Stat. 1817.)
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