: } : { of a criminal offense establish his place of residence within a specified area and maintain it there for a period not exceeding the maximum period of imprisonment which may be imposed for the offense. None of the other courts may do this nor may any court impose deportation as a penalty for a crime. However, when any part of a sentence of imprisonment is suspended, the court granting the Suspension may, and regularly does, impose conditions of suspension. These may include a residence requirement or departing from and remaining thereafter outside the Trust Territory during the suspension period. Deportation of non-citizens of the Territory rests in the discretion of the High Commissioner, and the committing of serious or repeated crime is naturally to be considered by him in the exercise of that discretion. Chapter 9 LEGAL SYSTEM The basic body of laws applicable and having force and effect in the Trust Territory is found in Section 20 of the Trust Territory Code, as amended by Public Law No. 2-15 of 1966. These laws are: (a) the Trusteeship Agreement, (b) such laws of the United States as are by their own terms applicable to the Territory, including Executive Orders of the United States President and Orders of the Secretary of the Interior, (c) laws of the Trust Territory, (d) past District Orders promulgated by district admin- istrators, and Emergency District Orders promulgated by district administrators, (e) acts of legislative bodies convened under charter granted by the Territorial Government when these 34 acts are approved by the distrid administrators or otherwise confirmeé as law as may be provided by charte. or the laws and regulations of th Trust Territory, (f) duly enacter Municipal Ordinances,(g) local custon when not in conflict with applicabk statutes, and (h) commonlaw. Section 436 of the Trust Territon Code further requires that, in imposin; sentences under Chapter 6 of the Code concerning crimes and criminal pro cedures, due recognition shall be giver. to the customs of inhabitants ir accordance with the Trusteeshiz Agreement. The penalty for any act which is made a crime solely by generally respected native custom shal not exceed a fine of $100, or € months imprisonment, or bott (Section 434, Trust Territory Code). The recognized customary law of the various island groups, atolls, and districts of the Territory in matters where applicable as determined by the courts, has the full force and effect of law, provided such customary law is not in conflict with the written body of laws enumerated under Section 20 of the Trust Territory Code. Section 22 of the Code provides that the common law, as expressed in the Restatements of the Law approved by the American Law Institute, and to the extent not so expressed, as generally understood and applied in the United States, shall be the rules of decision in the courts of the Territory in the absence of applicable statute or local customary law to the contrary. One important limitation to the application of common law appears in Section 24 which provides that the law concerning ownership, use, inheritance, and transfer of land in effect in any part of the Territory on December 1, 1941, shall remain in full force and effect except insofar as it has been, of Part V—Political Advancement **+ ii’