Lex Fori
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
practice. The law of the court or forum. The forms of remedies, the modes of proceeding, and the execution of judgments, are to be regulated solely and exclusively by the laws of the place where the action is instituted; or as the civilians uniformly express it, according to the lex furt.
Story, Confl. of Laws, § 556; 1 Caines’s Rep. 402; 3 Johns. Ch. R. 190; 6 Johns. R. 132; 2 Mass. R. 84; 7 Mass. R. 515; 3 Conn. R. 472.