lex actus .................................. the law governing a transaction, for example,
the applicable law of the contract.
lex causae...................................the law which the court has determined as the
governing law of an issue.
lex domicilii ................................the law of a person’s domicile.
lex fori .........................................the law of the court dealing with the issue.
Where an English court decides to apply its own
law regardless of the conflict issue, it applies
English law as the lex fori; where, however, it
determines on the application of English law as
a result of operating its choice of law rules, it
applies English law as the lex causae.
lex loci ...............................abbreviated form of lex loci actus, delicti,
celebrationis, as indicated by the particular
context.
lex loci actus ...............................the law of the place where an act was done.
lex loci celebrationis ...............the law of the place where a marriage was
celebrated.
lex loci contractus.......................the law of the place where a contract was made.
lex loci delicti .........................the law of the place where the wrongful act
(tort) was committed.
lex loci delicti commissi..............the law of the place where a tort is committed.
lex loci solutionis........................the law of the place where the contract is to be
performed.
lex patriae ...................................the law of the nationality.
lex propria causae .......................the proper law (see below).
lex propria delicti........................the proper law of the tort (see below).
renvoi ..........................................the reference of an issue, by the conflict rules of
the foreign law to which the forum’s conflict
rules first refer the issue, to the law of the forum
or the law of a third country.
lex situs ......................................the law of the place where a thing, particularly
but not exclusively a piece of land, is situated.
situs.............................................the location of the property in question.
locus regit actum.......................the law of the place governs the deed. An old
maxim that finds its modern expression in the
lex loci rules listed above.
