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Renvoi, a term employed in private international law to denote the sending, or determination, of a matter to or according to the law of a tribunal outside the jurisdiction where the question arose. Apparently, the Courts of France, Italy and Germany will apply the law of nationality, as in England, applies the law of the domicil, the latter law appears to have been applicable under German law in Germany, Re Askew, Majoribanks v. Askew, (1930) 2 Ch 259; and Italy Re Ross, Ross v. Waterfield, (1930) 1 Ch 377; and in France, as to movables Re Annesley, Davidson v. Annesley, (1926) 2 Ch 692. See Bate on the Doctrine of Renvoi.

Means 'sending back'. The doctrine under which a court in resorting to foreign law adopts as well the foreign law's conflict-of-laws principles, which may in turn refer the court back to the law of the forum, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1300.