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Lex Situs

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Modern law Latin for "the law of the place where property is situated." The general rule is that lands and other imihovables are governed by the l&x situs, i. e., by the law of the country in which they are situated.

Westl. Priv. Int. Law, 62.