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1629 A. Richardson Logicians School-master ii. xvii. 328 Euery thing desires by this rule not onely its proper place, but its proper situs also in that place.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 152 It was convenient that he [sc. man] should have such a Figure or Situs of the parts of his Body, that he might conveniently look upwards.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Things depending on the Situs of Lines and Figures.

1793 W. Rowley Rational Pract. Physic III. 75 (heading) Situs for the operation.

1890 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 289 The future situs of the cotton manufacture of the United States.

1891 Tablet 28 Feb. 334 It enables a Catholic to see as he never otherwise could the precise situs and shape of ultra-Protestant convictions.

1911 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 June 1348/2 The situs of the heart is maintained by pulmonary suction.

1969 H. Ellison in E. S. Rabkin Sci. Fiction: Hist. Anthol. (1983) 489 I must also mention this situs as characteristically troublesome.

2009 C. A. Gross in K. E. Eichensehr & W. M. Reisman Stopping Wars & making Peace vi. 206 There were occasional flashes of violence, particularly in the central provinces, the situs of Renamo's greatest support.

a1713 J. Stewart Dirleton's Doubts (1715) 279 All Persons ought to have Justice done them against their Parties, where they find and attack them; and that this Justice should be done..according to the Law Loci Contractus: But if it tend to affect the Lands or Res Immobiles where the Party conveened, live; it must be according to the Law of their Situs.

1791 In Cause Mrs R. Hog & T. Lashley against T. Hogg 3 Personal property follows the person of the owner, and in case of his decease, must go according to the law of the country where he had his domicile, for the actual situs of the goods has no influence.

1834 J. Story Comm. Conflict of Laws xiv. 462 Moveables are, for many purposes, to be deemed to have no situs, except that of the domicil of the owner.

1884 R. Desty Amer. Law Taxation I. v. 97 The legislature has the power to fix the situs of property for purposes of taxation.

1926 Pacific Reporter 248 341/1 Actual situs of personal property is necessary for taxation... In order to tax the cars in controversy as personal property, they must have actual situs at common law in this state.

1970 Southwestern Reporter 445 57/1 Bulldozers, which were regularly moved from one temporary location to another, did not have actual situs of their own, and were not subject to ad valorem taxation.

1977 R. K. Johns & R. R. Greenfield Dymond's Capital Transfer Tax xxiii. 491 Seven of the agreements provide situs codes (for determining the locality of assets).

2001 Daily Tel. 11 July 1/4 While the satellites are in Earth orbit, they nonetheless have a situs for tax purposes in Los Angeles County.

1950 Federal Suppl. (U.S.) 91 698/2 The Act..was intended to keep the situs of a labor dispute confined to actual functions of the parties involved... It is ‘stranger picketing’, i.e., picketing in aid of a secondary boycott.

1951 Labor Law Jrnl. 2 269 Contractors and subcontractors in the construction industry, where all work on a common project and on a common situs, are neutral to each other's labor disputes.

1961 Virginia Law Rev. 47 1167 The union..picketed a situs (the shipyard) shared by the Phopho and by employees of Moore who were engaged in overhauling and repairing the ship.

1996 W. E. Thoms in W. A. Lovett U.S. Shipping Policies & World Market vi. 157 If picketing is too remote from the original situs of the dispute, it may be enjoined.

1958 Stanford Law Rev. 10 702 Since the employer-tenant and neutral employers are located on the same premises, the type of secondary boycott law which the shopping center involves is that of ‘common situs’ picketing.

1977 Time 4 July 47/1 With smoothly coordinated pressure, business lobbyists have managed..to defeat organized labor's bid to pass a common situs picketing bill that would have allowed a single union to shut down a construction site.

2012 C. E. Craig Basic Labor & Employment Law for Paralegals (ed. 2) vi. 193 Certain guiding principles have developed for situations involving common situs picketing.