situs

Black’s Law Dictionary 1st Edition, page 1000:

SITUS. Lat. Site ; position ; location ; the place where a thing is, considered, for example, with reference to jurIsdiction over it.

Sive tota res evincatur, sive pars, habet regressum emptor in venditorem. The purchaser who has been evicted in whole or in part has an action against the vendor. Dig. 21, 2, 1; Broom, Max. 768.

Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Edition, page 1091:

SITUS. Lat. Site ; position ; location ; the place where a thing is, considered, for example, with reference to jurIsdiction over it, or the right or power to tax It. See Boyd v. Selma, 96 Ala. 144, 11 South. 393, 16 L. R. A. 729 ; Bullock v. Guilford, 59 vt 516, 9 AtI. 360 ; Fenton ‘V. Edwards, 126 Cal 43, 58 Pac. 320, 46 L. R. A.. 832, 77 Am. S’t Rep. 141.