local action

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
LOCAL ACTION, practice, pleadings. An action is local when the venue must be 
laid in the county where the cause of action arose. 1 Chit. PI'. 271; 21 
Vin. Ab. 79; 3 Bl. Com. 294; Bac. Ab. Actions, Local, &c.; Dane's Ab. Index, 
h.t.; 15 Mass. 284; 1 Brock. 203; 1 Greenl. 246. Vide Action; Venue. 
    

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