48 U.S.C. § 1392 : US Code - Section 1392: Local laws continued; courts

Search 48 U.S.C. § 1392 : US Code - Section 1392: Local laws continued; courts

Until Congress shall otherwise provide, insofar as compatible
with the changed sovereignty and not in conflict with the
provisions of this section and sections 1391 (!1) and 1394 to 1396
of this title, the laws regulating elections and the electoral
franchise as set forth in the code of laws published at Amalienborg
the 6th day of April, 1906, and the other local laws, in force and
effect in said islands on the 17th day of January, 1917, shall
remain in force and effect in said islands, and the same shall be
administered by the civil officials and through the local judicial
tribunals established in said islands, respectively; and the
orders, judgments, and decrees of said judicial tribunals shall be
duly enforced. With the approval of the President, or under such
rules and regulations as the President may prescribe, any of said
laws may be repealed, altered, or amended by the colonial council
having jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of the judicial tribunals of
said islands shall extend to all judicial proceedings and
controversies in said islands to which the United States or any
citizen thereof may be a party.