lex loci
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 30 U.S. 457 - John Hawkins and William May v. Joshua Barney's Lessee · 1831Most cited · 98 citing opinions
governs private right
We have an analogous case in the thirty-fourth section of the Judiciary Act of the United States; in which it is enacted that the laws of the several states shall be rules of decision in the courts of the United States; and which has been uniformly held to be no more than a declaration of what the law would have been without it: to wit, that the lex loci must be the governing rule of private right, under whatever jurisdiction private right comes to be examined.
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