Lex fori is a legal term used in the conflict of laws

Conflict of laws

Conflict of laws is a set of procedural rules that determines which legal system and which jurisdiction's applies to a given dispute...

 used to refer to the laws of the jurisdiction in which a legal action is brought. When a court decides that it should, by reason of the principles of conflict of law, resolve a given legal dispute by reference to the laws of another jurisdiction, the lex causae

Lex causae

In the conflict of laws, lex causae is the law or laws chosen by the forum court from among the relevant legal systems to arrive at its judgement of an international or interjurisdictional case....

, the lex fori still govern procedural matters.

See also

• Lex causae
  Lex causae
  In the conflict of laws, lex causae is the law or laws chosen by the forum court from among the relevant legal systems to arrive at its judgement of an international or interjurisdictional case....
  
  
• Lex loci celebrationis
  Lex loci celebrationis
  The lex loci celebrationis is the Latin term for "law of the place where the marriage is celebrated" in the conflict of laws. Conflict is the branch of public law regulating all lawsuits involving a "foreign" law element where a difference in result will occur depending on which laws are...
  
  
• Lex loci contractus
  Lex loci contractus
  In the conflict of laws, the lex loci contractus is the Latin term for "law of the place where the contract is made".-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...
  
  
• Lex loci delicti commissi
  Lex loci delicti commissi
  The lex loci delicti commissi is the Latin term for "law of the place where the delict [tort] was committed" in the conflict of laws. Conflict of laws 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...
  
  
• Lex loci rei sitae
  Lex loci rei sitae
  The lex loci rei sitae is a doctrine which states that the law governing the transfer of title to property is dependent upon, and varies with, the location of the property for the purposes of the conflict of laws...
  
  
• Lex situs
  Lex situs
  The term lex situs refers to the law of the place in which property is situated for the purposes of the conflict of laws. For example, property may subject to tax pursuant to the law of the place of the property or by virtue of the domicile of its owner...
  
  
• Privilegium fori
  Privilegium fori
  The privilegium fori, Latin for "Privilege of the forum", is a generic term for legal privileges to be tried in a particular court or type of court of law....