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 11 See References in Text note below. 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approval of the President, or under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe, any of said laws may be repealed, altered, or amended by the colonial council having jurisdiction.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.
Notes of Decisions
Granville-Smith v. Granville-Smith, 349 U.S. 1 (1955).
· cites it 2× “1132 , 48 U. S. C. § 1392 , subject to change by the two Colonial Councils, the instruments of municipal government for the two districts of the Islands.”
Paradise Motors, Inc. v. Murphy, 892 F. Supp. 703 (D.V.I. 1994).
· cites it 2× “1132 (codified as amended at 48 U.S.C. §§ 1392 , 1394—1396 (1976)), re-printed, in V.”
People of Virgin Islands v. Price, 181 F.2d 394 (3rd Cir. 1950).
· cites it 3× “1132 ; 48 U.S.C. § 1392 ] to be such as to enable this court to review on appeal all matters of fact and of law involved in the judgments brought here for review.”
Richardson v. Electoral Boards, 1936 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1093 (D.V.I. 1936).
· cites it 2× “1132 ; 48 U.S.C. § 1392 ). This section reads as follows: “Section 2.”
Callwood v. Kean, 189 F.2d 565 (3rd Cir. 1951).
“” The Danish laws locally in force in the Virgin Islands on January 17, 1917, when ratifications of the treaty of cession by Denmark to the United States were exchanged, remained in force until otherwise provided by Congress or by the Colonial Council having jurisdiction,…”
In Re Howley, 439 B.R. 535 (Bankr. D. Kan. 2010).
“, 48 U.S.C. § 1392 (as to the Virgin Islands, certain laws regulating elections and the electoral franchise “and the other local laws” in effect on January 17, 1917, shall remain in effect).”
In re Gibbons, 1924 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 936 (D.V.I. 1924).
“1132 ; 48 U.S.C. § 1392 ; prec. 1 V.I.C.), which Act is in substance, though not in form, the local Constitution of the Virgin Islands of the United States.”
Richards v. Elective Bd., 1936 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1094 (D.V.I. 1936).
“1132 [ 48 U.S.C. § 1392 ]), keeps in operative force such election laws found in the Amalienborg Code of 1906 as are “compatible with the changed sovereignty.”
People v. Francis, 1936 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1095 (D.V.I. 1936).
“3,1917, supra; 48 U.S.C. § 1392 ). It is also reasonable to infer that section 2 cares for the entire matter by incorporating the Amalienborg Code (Colonial Law of Apr.”
Target Sportswear, Inc. v. United States, 70 F.3d 604 (Fed. Cir. 1995).
“48 U.S.C. § 1392 et seq. (1994). On December 9, 1993, Customs refused to allow entry of twelve mens suits shipped by Target from the U.”
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