from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
LEX FORI, practice. The law of the court or forum.
2. The forms of remedies, the modes of proceeding, and the execution of
judgments, are to be regulated solely and exclusively, by the laws of the
place where the action is instituted or as the civilians uniformly express
it, according to the lex fori. Story, Confl. of Laws, Sec. 550; 1 Caines'
Rep. 402; 3 Johns. Ch. R. 190; 5 Johns. R. 132; 2 Mass. R. 84; 7 Mass. R.
515; 3 Conn. R. 472; 7 M. R. 214; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 860.