CNMI Legal Guide - Intestate Succession to Jury
Jul 21, 2011
INTESTATE SUCCESSION: 8 C.M.C. 2901
Custom is closely mirrored by 8 C.M.C. 2901, which deals with intestate succession. Under Chamorro custom, the surviving spouse receives a life estate, the issue...
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CNMI Legal Digest - Holidays to Interest
Jul 21, 2011
HOLIDAYS: 1 C.M.C. 311
New Year's Day, January 1; Commonwealth Day, January 9; President's Day, Third Monday in February; Covenant Day, March 24; Good Friday, as designated in the Annual Calendar; Mem...
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CNMI Legal Digest - Injunctions to Insurance
Jul 21, 2011
INJUNCTIONS
Commonwealth Rules of Civil Procedure 65.
An injunction may be granted (a) when it appears that the plaintiff is entitled to the relief demanded, where such relief consists of restraining ...
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CNMI Legal Digest - Holidays to Interest
Jul 21, 2011
HOLIDAYS: 1 C.M.C. 311
New Year's Day, January 1; Commonwealth Day, January 9; President's Day, Third Monday in February; Covenant Day, March 24; Good Friday, as designated in the Annual Calendar; Mem...
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CNMI Legal Digest - Family Land to Guns
Jul 20, 2011
FAMILY LAND is defined as land held by a person of Carolinian descent and held by the individual as a customary trustee, subject to special rules of intestate succession.
FORECLOSURE
See Mortgagesand...
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CNMI Legal Digest - Environment to Executors
Jul 20, 2011
ENVIRONMENT: 1 C.M.C. 2646, N.M.I. Const. art. 1, 9.
Each person has the Constitutional right to a clean and healthful public environment in all areas, including the land, air, and water. A private...
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CNMI Legal Digest - Discovery to Divorce
Jul 20, 2011
DISCOVERY: Com. R. Civ. P. 26 to 37.
Similar to the Federal Rules.
All discovery devices allowed by the federal rules are allowed. However, unless the parties stipulate to commence an exchange of info...
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CNMI Legal Digest - Damages to Deeds of Trust
Jul 20, 2011
DAMAGESDAMAGES
The comparative negligence rule applies in civil cases. P.L. 12-26 (2000) .
DEATHDEATH
Presumption of death - A person who is absent for a continuous period of five years, during which t...
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CNMI Legal Digest - Criminal Law
Jul 19, 2011
CRIMINAL LAW: Title 6
There is a penal codeand rules of criminal procedure. This code was adopted almost entirely from the old Trust Territory Code. Procedure is governed by the Commonwealth Rules of ...
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CNMI Legal Digest - Courts
Jul 19, 2011
COURTS
U.S. Federal District Courtfor the Northern Mariana Islands
2d Floor, Horiguchi Bldg., Garapan
PO Box 50607
Saipan, MP 96950
(670)236-2902
fax 236-2910
Federal Court - Admission
Admission to...
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