---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1406f"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "1406f"
heading: "Judicial process; title of criminal prosecutions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/1406f"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Virgin Islands"
  - "Subchapter II — Civil Government"
---

# §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.”


## Source credit

(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, § 37, 49 Stat. 1817.)