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Locus Regit Actum

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In private international law. The rule that, when a legal transaction complies with the formalities required by the law of the country where it is done, it is also valid in the country where it is to be given effect, although by the law of that country other formalities are required.

8 Savigny, System, § 381; Westl. Priv. Int. Law, 159.

LOCUS REl SITAE.

See Lex Bei Sitae.