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History

Click on the chapters below to learn more about the history of the courts.
 Preface: Acknowledgments (PDF)
 CHAPTER 1: Law and Justice in the Marianas: Spanish Era (1521-1898) (PDF)
 CHAPTER 2: Law and Courts in the Northern Marianas during the German Colonial Period (1899 – 1914) (PDF)
 CHAPTER 3: Japanese Era (1914 – 1944) (PDF)
 CHAPTER 4: Legal Institutions of the United States Navy’s Military Government of the Northern Mariana Islands (1944-1947) (PDF)
 CHAPTER 5: Trust Territory (1947-1984) (PDF)
 CHAPTER 6: The Present Commonwealth Judiciary (PDF)