Forum Rei
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
or REI SITAE. L. Lat. The forum or court of the thing, [res, rei;] the court of the place where a thing claimed is; the tribunal where the property is.
Story's Conflict of Laws, § 326 k.
The place where a thing in controversy is situated, considered as a place of jurisdiction and remedy.
2 Kent's Com. 463.