locus rei sitae

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
LOCUS REI SITAE. The place where a thing is situated. In proceedings in rem, 
in real actions in the civil law, or: those which have for their object the 
recovery of a thing; and in real actions in the common law, or those for the 
recovery of land, the proper forum is the locus rei sitae. 2 Gall. R. 191. 
    

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