Sittings In Camera

See "Chambers." SITUS (Lat.) Situation; location. 5 Pet. (U. S.) 524. Real estate has always a fixed sites, while personal estate has no such fixed situs; the law rei sitae regulates real, but not the personal, estate. Story, Confl. Laws, § 379. The rules as to the situs of personal property have been stated as follows: (1) Movable and tangible chattels are of the county where they may be at the time. (2) Shares in corporations or joint-stock companies are of the county where the chief office of the company is situated. (3) Judgments and other debts of record are of the county where the record is kept. (4) Bonds and negotiable securities are of the county where they happen to be at the time. (5) Promissory notes, bills of exchange, and all simple contracts are of the county where the debtor resides. (6) Demands against a commonwealth are of the county wherein is situated the seat of government. 2 Minor, Inst. 853.

See Chambers.

Defined under Sittings in Black's Law Dictionary.