lex loci delicti
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From 336 U.S. 386 - Black Diamond Corporation v. Robert Stewart & Sons · 1949Most cited · 239 citing opinions
the settled principle that, in the absence of some overriding domestic policy translated into law, the right to recover for a tort depends upon and is measured by the law of the place where the tort occurred.