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| Conflict of laws |
| Preliminiaries |
| Characterisation · Incidental question Renvoi · Choice of law Conflict of laws in the United States Public policy · Hague Conference |
| Definitional elements |
| State · Jurisdiction · Procedure Forum non conveniens · Lex causae Lex fori · Forum shopping Lis alibi pendens |
| Connecting factors |
| Domicile · Lex domicilii Habitual residence Nationality · Lex patriae Lex loci arbitri · Lex situs Lex loci contractus Lex loci delicti commissi Lex loci actus Lex loci solutionis · Proper law Lex loci celebrationis Choice of law clause · Dépeçage Forum selection clause |
| Substantive legal areas |
| Status · Capacity · Contract · Tort Marriage · Nullity Divorce (Get · Talaq) Property · Succession · Trusts |
| Enforcement |
| Enforcement of foreign judgments Mareva injunctions Anti-suit injunctions |
The lex loci delicti commissi is the Latin term for "law of the place where the tort was committed" in the conflict of laws. Conflict is the branch of law regulating all lawsuits involving a "foreign" law element where a difference in result will occur depending on which laws are applied.
The term is often shortened to lex loci delicti.
Explanation
When a case comes before a court and all the main features of the case are local, the court will apply the lex fori, the prevailing municipal law, to decide the case. But if there are "foreign" elements to the case, the forum court may be obliged under the Conflict of Laws system to consider:
- whether the forum court has jurisdiction to hear the case (see the problem of forum shopping);
- it must then characterise the issues, i.e. allocate the factual basis of the case to its relevant legal classes; and
- then apply the choice of law rules to decide the lex causae, i.e. which law is to be applied to each class of issue or to the case as a whole.
The lex loci delicti commissi is one of the possible choice of law rules applied to cases arising from an alleged tort. For example, suppose that a person domiciled in Australia and a person habitually resident in Albania, exchange correspondence by e-mail that is alleged to defame a group of Kurds resident in Turkey. The possibly relevant choice of law rules would be:
- the lex loci solutionis might be the most relevant but this might be difficult because three laws might equally apply, i.e. the parties themselves corresponded from two states but the damage was not sustained until the correspondence was published in Turkey;
- the proper law which is the law which has the closest connection with the substance of the wrong alleged to have been committed; and
- the lex fori which might have public policy issues if, say, one of the parties was an infant or there was the possibility of multiple jurisdictions having involvement over a world-wide internet issue.
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