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Definition :

Local actions, those referring to some particular locality, as actions for trespasses to land, in which the venue must have been laid in the county where the cause of action arose.

Real actions and the mixed action of ejectment were local: but personal actions were for the most part transitory, i.e., their cause of action might be supposed to take place anywhere, but when they were brought for anything in relation to realty, they were then local, see Mostyn v. Fabrigas, (1775) 1 Smith, L.C., and 2 Chit. Arch. Prac.

And see COUNTY COURT (JURISDICTION), and VENUE.