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Lex loci rei sit '

Lex loci rei sit ' (the law of the place where the thing is situate). It is sometimes also called lex situs. As to real or immovable property, the general rule of the Common Law is, that the laws of the place where such property is situate exclusively govern in respect to the power to contract, the rights of the parties, the modes of transfer, and the solemnities which should accompany them, see Freke v. Lord Carbery, (1873) LR 16 Eq 461; Bank of Africa v. Cohen, (1909) 2 Ch 129. The title, therefore, to real property can be acquired, passed, and lost only according to the lex loci rei sit', Story's Confl. Of Laws, s. 424. See Westlake on Private International Law; Dicey's Conflict of Laws....


Lex situs

Lex situs, defined, Delhi Cloth & General Mills Co. Ltd. v. Harnam Singh, AIR 1955 SC 590.Lex situs. See LEX LOCI REI SIT'...


Prolem ante matrimonium natam, ut post legitimam, lex civilis succedere facit in h'reditate parentum; sed prolem, quam matrimonium non parit, succedere non sinit lex Anglorum

Prolem ante matrimonium natam, ut post legitimam, lex civilis succedere facit in h'reditate parentum; sed prolem, quam matrimonium non parit, succedere non sinit lex Anglorum. Fort. C. 39, (The Civil Law permits the offspring born before marriage, provided such offspring be afterwards legitimized, to be the heirs of their parents; but the law of the English does not suffer the offspring not produced by the marriage to succeed.) See LEGITIMATION; MERTON....


Quando lex est specialis, ratio autem generalis, generaliter lex est intelligenda

Quando lex est specialis, ratio autem generalis, generaliter lex est intelligenda (2 Inst. 83), where a law is special, but its reason general, the law is to be understood generally. (See Maxim 862)....


Cursus Curiae est lex curiae

Cursus Curiae est lex curiae, see Jammaluddin Ahmad v. Abu Saleh, (2003) 4 SCC 257 (272): AIR 2003 SC 1917.Cursus curi' est lex curi'. 3 Buls. 53.--(The practice of the court is the law of the court.) See Broom's Leg. Max....


Lex fori

Lex fori, the law of the place of action.The forms of remedies, modes of proceeding, rules of evidence and execution of judgments are regulated by the laws of the place where the action is instituted; or, as the civilians express it, according to the lex fori. See British Linen Co. v. Drummond, (1830) 10 B&C 903; 34 RR 595, and Preface vi.; and Hansen v. Dixon, (1907) 96 LT 32. Consult Dicey's Conflict of Laws....


de minimis non curat lex

de minimis non curat lex [New Latin, the law does not concern itself with trifles] : the principle that the law is not concerned with insignificant or minor matters ...


lex fori

lex fori [New Latin, law of the court] : the law of the court in which a proceeding is brought ...


lex loci contractus

lex loci contractus [New Latin, law of the place of the contract] : the law of the place where a contract was made or to be performed ...


lex loci delictii

lex loci delictii [New Latin, law of the place of the wrong] : the law of the place where an offense or tort occurred ...


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