renvoi

noun3

1. •
   A situation in which a court, tasked with deciding which state's law should apply to a case, decides to apply the law of the forum, based on the determination that a court from another involved state would also apply the law of the forum.

   • As has been shown, the renvoi, if logically carried out, involves a perpetual deadlock. But both England and America try the validity of a will of personalty by the law of the testator's last domicil. — 1908
2. •
   Cross-reference in text; a sign that refers to something introduced earlier in a text.

   • The description would be inexact because it gives figure to an essential play of return (renvoi). — 2003
3. •
   (no longer used) A return.