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Locus Delicti

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The place where the tort, offense, or injury has been committed. LOCUS IN QUO (Lat. the place in which). In pleading. The place where anything is alleged to have been done.

1 Salk. 94. LOCUS PARTITU8.

In old English law

A place divided; a division made between two towns or counties to make out in which the land or place in question lies. Fleta, lib.

4, c. 15, § 1; Cowell.

LOCUS PRO SOLUTIONE REDITUS aut pecuniae secundum conditionem dlmisslonis aut obligatlonis est strlcte ohservanto the condition of the lease or obligation.

4 Coke, 73.