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	INTERPELLATION - LoveToKnow Article on INTERPELLATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lex situs, lex loci actus, lex loci contractus, lex fori.The law of the territory in which they are situate (lex situs) is generally applied to the property in particular things, whether movable or immovable, so far as they are not included in any mass grouped round a person; in England, therefore, always to immovables.
		In matters of legal procedure every court follows its own practice exclusivel.y (lex Jon), as, for instance, whether the remedy on a contract shall be damages or specific performance, and whether a judgment may be executed against the person or only against the property of a party.
		A point much disputed under this head is whether the time of limitation of actions shall, as held in the United Kingdom, be decided by the lexfori, as an incident to the procedure, or by the lex loci contractus in one of its varieties, as an essential modality of the obligation.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /I/IN/INTERPELLATION.htm (2132 words)

	Private international law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Once the lex causae has been selected, it will be respected except when it appears to contravene an overriding mandatory rule of the lex fori.
		Furthermore, the lex fori will prevail in cases where an application of the lex causae would otherwise result in a fundamentally immoral outcome, or give extraterritorial effect to confiscatory or other territorially limited laws.
		If the lex loci arbitri has been ignored, but there was no real and substantial connection between the place of arbitration and the agreement made by the parties, a court in which enforcement is sought may well accept the tribunal's decision.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Private_international_law (1502 words)

	Terms and Definitions Chapter 5 (some are paraphrased)
		Lex loci contractus – The law of the state where the last act necessary to complete the contract was done and which created a legal obligation.
		Lex loci delicti commissi – The tradition of the law is to apply the law of the place where the crime was committed – lex loci delicti commissi.
		Lex loci solutionis – Where the contract was to be performed.
	www.swheath.com /doc/polsc215chapter5.htm (743 words)

	Ca02-543
		The lex loci contractus rule generally comports with the reasonable expectations of the parties concerning the principal situs of the insured risk, and it furnishes needed certainty and consistency in the selection of applicable law.
		Despite the easy applicability of the lex loci contractus rule, courts sometimes consider, in addition to the place where the contract was made, which state has the most "significant contacts" with the issue at hand.
		We believe that, whether the lex loci contractus rule or the significant contacts analysis is applied, the insurance contract inthe present case is governed by Arkansas law.
	courts.state.ar.us /opinions/2002b/20021113/ca02-543.html (2262 words)

	Browse Caselaw
		Under the rule of lex loci delicti, tort cases are governed by the substantive law of the state where the tort was committed.
		Under the rule of lex fori, procedural or remedial questions are governed by the law of the forum, the state in which the action is brought.
		Under the rule of lex loci contractus, these issues, including the question of whether insurance coverage for punitive damages violates public policy, are to be determined by the substantive law of Georgia.
	www.lawskills.com /case/ga/id/33516 (2106 words)

	Symeonides's Choice of Law Survey 1998
		It applied the lex loci in the first one, but not in the last one preferring instead to resolve the conflict on the basis of "public policy considerations" derived from the forum's workers' compensation statute.
		The commitment of Virginia's highest court to the lex loci delicti and the lex loci contractus rules appears to be almost as firm as Alabama's.
		This essentially means that the lex loci delicti and lex loci contractus rules are inapplicable whenever the locus of the tort or contract is in another state which has not enacted a statute on the matter.
	www.comparativelaw.org /res-conf98.html (13525 words)

	INTERNATIONAL LAW (PRIVATE) - Online Information article about INTERNATIONAL LAW (PRIVATE)
		Lex sites, lex loci actus, lex loci contractus, lex fori.—The law of the territory in which they are situate (lex sites) is generally applied to the property in particular things, whether movable or immovable, so far as they are not included in any mass grouped See also:
		Nor in England has the sufficiency of the form of the lex loci actus for the celebration of marriage ever been doubted, but a will made by a notarial act in accordance with that law was not admitted.
		The law of the place of contract lex loci contractus, is distinguished into that of the place where the contract is entered into, lex loci contractus celebrati, and that of the place where it is to be per-formed, which, from the particular case in which the performance consists only in a See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /I27_INV/INTERNATIONAL_LAW_PRIVATE_.html (6023 words)

	Layne Christensen Co. v. Zurich Canada (2002) * Kansas
		Two general principles govern contracts cases: The primary rule, lex loci contractus, calls for the application of the law of the state where the contract is made.
		The primary rule, lex loci contractus, calls for the application of the law of the state where the contract is made.
		Courts have struggled on occasion to determine whether the issues in a particular case are governed by lex loci contractus or the law of the place of performance.
	www.claimrep.com /laws/cases/ks/caseKsLayneChristensen.htm (7032 words)

	chet_mccormick_courtrep_4\|How to Read Back and Testify\|Legal Terminology
		Lex loci contractus means the law of the place where a contract is made.
		Lex fori means the law of the state, county, or jurisdiction.
		Lex loci domicilii refers to the law of the place of domicile.
	wps.prenhall.com /chet_mccormick_courtrep_4/0,7159,554756-,00.utf8.html (273 words)

	Choice of Law in the American Courtsin 1995: A Year in Review
		Lex loci contractus is still the law in the majority of jurisdictions, although there is a significant modern erosion of the rule.
		However, lest the reader get the impression that the court is "jettisoning" the lex loci contractus rule, the court explained that, having not been asked by the parties to "explicitly abandon" that rule, the court "decline[s] to do so here.
		The Justice also discussed the possibility of exceptions to the lex loci delicti rule in other situations, especially those in which both involved parties are domiciled in the same non-accident state.
	www.willamette.edu /wucl/wlo/conflicts/95survey/95survey.htm (4250 words)

	OSCN Found Document:Bohannan v. Allstate Ins. Co.
		The reasons stated in Brickner for abandoning and rejecting the lex loci delictus rule in tort law are equally compelling for abandoning and rejecting the lex loci contractus rule in contract law.
		However, neither the lex loci contractus rule, nor the lex loci solutionis rule allows full consideration of the statutes and public policies of the several states in motor vehicle insurance disputes.
		Brooks, 523 So.2d 1126 (Fla. 1988), (lex loci contractus rule required imposition of New York interspousal immunity because, in essence, the laws of the jurisdiction where the contract is made are incorporated by reference into the agreement), Aetna Casualty and Surety Company v.
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeID=15113 (5170 words)

	Choice of Law in Contract and Thai Private International Law: A Comparative Study
		First, the lex loci contractus is primarily deemed to be the rigid rule that was widely employed in European nations in the nineteenth century(73) and this rigid connecting point was also used by French courts in the twentieth century(74).
		According to the Thai conflict of laws rules, in the case of failing to indicate the expressed as well as inferred proper of contract, deliberately or not deliberately, and if the contracting parties do not share the same nationality, then, the lex loci contractus is perceived as a last resort to fill the gap(75).
		To the extent that lex situs becomes a paramount rule applied to all legal matters relating to immovable properly no matter now it concerns law of patrimonial property between husband and wife, law of things, law of obligation, law of succession.
	www.thailawforum.com /articles/choiceoflaw4.html (1480 words)

	Choice of Law in Bad Faith Cases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The common approaches are: (1) the doctrines of lex loci contractus, lex loci solutionis, and lex loci delicti, all of the Restatement (First) of Conflicts of Law (the "First Restatement"); (2) Professor Brainerd Currie's "governmental interest analysis," and; (3) the "significant relationship" test of the Restatement (Second) of Conflicts of Law (the "Second Restatement").
		However, if the contract was made in one state, but was to be performed in another, the substantive law of the state where the contract was to be performed will govern.
		This is the doctrine of lex loci solutionis.
	www.bbplaw.com /publications/9808bf.htm (2675 words)

	Maryland Insurance Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In addition to the contractual language, the Court may look to the character of the contract, its object and purposes, and the factual circumstances of the parties at the time of execution.
		Even where motor vehicle liability insurance is concerned, the rule of lex loci contractus requires that the construction and validity of a contract be determined by the law of the place of making of the contract.
		The Maryland Court of Appeals has recognized an exception to the application of lex loci contractus when application of a foreign jurisdiction's law would be contrary to a strong public policy of Maryland.
	www.jocs-law.com /maryland2.htm (5042 words)

	Symeonides
		After stating that "'[i]n general, this State adheres to the conflicts of law doctrine of lex loci delicti'," [FN81] and noting that the parties agreed on the application of Kentucky law to this issue, the court proceeded to apply the Kentucky discovery rule and concluded that it did not toll the statute of limitations.
		The court concluded that this was not sufficient to overcome the presumption in favor of the lex loci and remanded the case to the lower court with instructions to apply Texas law.
		Unsure of whether this action is delictual or contractual, the court applied both a tort and a contract choice-of-law analysis and concluded that, under the traditional theory, South Carolina law should apply to both the tort and the contract aspects of the case.
	www.comparativelaw.org /jour-curr-1.html (15534 words)

	: PR 05405.009 - Delaware - 10/25/2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Delaware law follows the general principle that a marriage valid under the law of the place where it was contracted ("lex loci contractus") is valid in Delaware.
		As noted in Program Operations Manual System GN 00307.930, only civil marriages were valid in South Vietnam in 1975, and marriages were usually performed by civil authorities and entered into their records at that time.
		Delaware law follows the general principle that a marriage valid under lex loci contractus is valid in Delaware.
	policy.ssa.gov /poms.nsf/517e83681a5eb8b28525688d0058721c/ad57d38ac115246785256f39000c6c35!OpenDocument (1096 words)

	59 Wn.2d 38, ESCROW SERVICE CO., INC., Respondent, v. GEORGE E. CRESSLER et al., Appellants
		Under the maxim of lex loci contractus, the nature and character of a debt is determined by the law of the state where it is incurred.
		The respondent urges that such cases be overruled, and that the long established common-law maxim of lex loci contractus be abandoned.
		For the reasons stated, we adhere to the maxim of lex loci contractus, and reaffirm the principles expressed in the cited cases.
	www.mrsc.org /mc/courts/supreme/059wn2d/059wn2d0038.htm (3469 words)

	70 Wn.2d 893, BAFFIN LAND CORPORATION, Appellant, v. MONTICELLO MOTOR INN, INC., et al., Respondents
		The lex loci contractus rule is not the easy, certain, and predictable panacea for all cases that it might superficially seem to be.
		The only other argument advanced in favor of continued adherence to the rule of lex loci contractus is based on the policy reasons implicit in the doctrine of stare decisis.
		We think lex loci contractus is an unfortunately outstanding example of a rule which, in our modern multistate commercialism, has outlasted any usefulness it may ever have had, if it ever had any.
	www.mrsc.org /mc/courts/supreme/070wn2d/070wn2d0893.htm (3953 words)

	[No title]
		In the case of torts, for example, that choice-of- law rule was the monolithic lex loci delicti rule (the law of the place of wrong”), that is, all substantive questions relating to the existence of a tort claim are governed by the local law of the place of wrong.
		Those lex loci rules are to be applied, unless there is some other state with a more significant relationship to the issue, in which case the lex loci rule is displaced and MSR state’s law is applied.
		Much as lex loci delicti had proven too inflexible for resolution of tort conflicts, the rigid law of the place of contracting”; approach has become outmoded in resolving contract conflicts.
	council.legislature.mi.gov /mlrc/1997/borrow.htm (4240 words)

	Antonin I. Pribetic
		Conversely, where the contract was formed (the "locus contractus") and its corollary, the law of the place where the contract is concluded (the "lex loci contractus") is the predominant theory for choice of law in contract.
		Therefore, Justice Cronk, concluded that the lex loci delicti rule applied in international litigation "notwithstanding a high degree of connection between the litigants and the place of the forum."[80] It is noteworthy that in Somers v.
		Derived from a combination of the traditional conflicts of law terminology of "lex fori" (the "law of the forum") and "lex loci" (contractus or delicti commissi).
	www.cisg.law.pace.edu /cisg/biblio/pribetic1.html (12005 words)

	Army Regulation 840-10. Heraldic Activities: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Where both the law of the flag and the lex loci contractus were British, the law of England was held to govern the contract; 63 [F.] 268; 60 [F.] 247.
		In a shipment of goods in England, in an English vessel, on an ordinary bill of lading, the liability of the vessel is to be determined according to the law of the place of shipment, as the law of the flag; 19 [F.] 101.
		Generally it may be said that the doctrine of the Missouri is in conflict with the current of authority in England, it being usually held in that country that as to such stipulations in the bill of lading the lex loci contractus prevails; 9 Q. id 521, 540; 12 id 596; 3 Moo.
	www.geocities.com /tthor.geo/840-10.html (2477 words)

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