lex loci

American  

[leks loh-sahy, -kee, -kahy] / lɛks ˈloʊ saɪ, -ki, -kaɪ /

noun

Law.

1. the law of a place.

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lex loci British  

/ ˈləʊsaɪ, -kiː /

noun

1. the law of the place

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Etymology

Origin of lex loci

First recorded in 1825–35, lex loci is from Latin lēx locī

Example Sentences

Stand back! stand back!" answered long Jacob; "the quotient was correct; the lex loci and the lex terræ were argued.

From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by Townsend, George Alfred

No commentator," says Judge Hall, in his Letters from the West, "has taken any notice of Linch's Law, which was once the lex loci of the frontiers.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829 by Various

In addition to this, it was discovered that Mexico had abolished slavery, and consequently that the lex loci of all the countries ceded by Mexico to the United States excluded slavery.

From History of American Abolitionism by Fontaine, F. G. de

It was alleged on the one hand that by the Mexican lex loci slavery was prohibited.

From American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander

It is precisely similar to the case of a contract to which the lex loci gives the construction, and the lex fori its execution.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)