Federal · Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions

48 U.S.C. § 1406f: Judicial process; title of criminal prosecutions

Civil

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This statute establishes the formal naming convention for judicial process and criminal prosecutions in Virgin Islands courts, designating the United States President for federal matters and the People of the Virgin Islands for local prosecutions.

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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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