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48 U.S.C. § 1406f. — Judicial process; title of criminal prosecutions · Congress.wiki

U.S. Code/Title 48/§ 1406f

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48 U.S.C. § 1406f.Chapter 7

§ 1406f

Judicial process; title of criminal prosecutions

Title 48

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Subchapter: CIVIL GOVERNMENT

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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.”

Release: pl-119-83 (2026-04-13)