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stablish his place
a specified area
for a period not
num period of
nay be imposed
€ of the other
f may any court
a penalty for a
| any part of a
iment
is
gtanting
sus.
the
regularly does,
wh A
Bey
acts are approved by
the distri may hereafter be, changed by the
administrators or otherwise confirmepxpress Writtenenact
rte
actment
made under
as law as may be provided by chartg@he authority
or the laws and regulations
of ¢
Trust Territory, (f) dul
The traditional customary patterns,
y enacte
Municipal Ordinances, (g) loca
l custo native law and customs of the various
when not in conflict with appl
icableMistricts and islands in the vemitory
Statutes, and (h) common
law.
b ave
been
subjected to study an
vestigation. Background papers on
Section 436 of the Trust
Territor Ruch subjects as the land tenure pat-
Code further requires that,
in imposin;Merns of the various districts, marriage
Sentences under Chapter 6
ofthe Coc
concerning crimes and
criminal Pro
cedures, due recognition
shall be give
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customs, political power structure, and
political factionalism have been prepared at different times by various
researchers.
All
these
reports,
manuscripts, booklets, and handbooks
have provided reference material i
use by Land Management personnel,
by district administrators, by Per
sonnel of the Legal Department, ane
by members of the court system an
the Congress.
of suspension.
sidence require| and remaining io the
customs of inhabitants ‘Members and staff of the Truk District Legislature
Crust Territory accordanc
in front of their new legislative building.
e with the TrusteeshigeFoose
°
2r10d. Deporta- Agreem
ent. The penalty for any
acg
- the Territory which
is made a crime sol
ely byfi
of the High generally
respected native cus
tom shal
committing of not exc
eed a fine of $100, or ¢
1€ is naturally
months
imprisonment,
or both :
n in the exer- (Section
434, Trust Territory Code)
BUILDING
iS ATURE
ra ae
The recognized Customary
law of
the various island groups
, atolls, and
districts of the Territory
in matters
where applicable as det
ermined by the
cou
rts, has the full force and eff
ect off
law
NS applicable
ffect in the
n Section 20
’ Code, as
No. 2-15 of
the Trusteelaws of the
their own
F
, provided such Custom
ary law jg
not in conflict with the
written body,
of laws enumerated und
er Section 20
of the Trust Territory
Code. Section
22 of the Code Provid
es that the
common law, aS expres
sed jn the
Restatements of the Law app
roved b
the American Law Inst
itute, and to’
the extent not so expres
sed, as generally understood and app
lied in the|
United States, shall be
the
rules of B
Territory, decision in the
courts
ers of the
d Orders of
or, (c) laws
ast District
Tictadmin¥Y
District
rictadmintive bodies
ited by the
hen these
of the Territory’
in the absence of applicabl
e statute or IF
local cus
tomary law to the contra
ry.
One important limitatio
n to the appiication of common law
appears in
Section 24 which provides
that the law
concerning
Ownership,
use,
inherit-
ance, and transfer of land
in effect in
any part of the Territory
on December
1, 1941, shall remain in full
force and
effe
ct except insofar as it has bee
n, or
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ancement
35
Fiscal Year 1968
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