Lex loci

Lex Loci definition:
Latin; the law of a place as in where a right was acquired or a liability incurred.
Strictly, the law of a place.

Lex Loci
"Latin meaning "the law of a place." In other words, the local law.
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LEX LOCI
Law of the place
The notion that the rights to a legal proceeding are governed by the law of the place where those rights arose.

LEX LOCI CONTRACTUS, contracts. The law of the place where an agreement is made.

Lex loci. The law of the place. Lex mercatoria. The law-merchant. See Merchant. Lex neminem cogit ad vana seu inutilia peragenda. The law forces no one to do vain or useless things. Broom, Max. 242-51. Lex non cogit impossibilia.

It is in fact, a lex loci which regulates all local or real property within its limits. A repugnancy which destroys it must be such as to show it never did exist.

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