lex loci delictus

/leks lowsay daliktas/ The law of the place where the crime or wrong took place. The "lex loci delicti", or "place of the wrong", is the state where the last event necessary to make an actor liable for an alleged tort takes place. Sestito v. Knop, C.A.Wis., 297 F.2d 33, 34.

More fully expressed by the words lex loci delicti commissi (law of the place where a tort is committed), usually written more briefly as lex loci delicti, or, sometimes, simply lex delicti