Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

law of the place

Under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the state law applicable to the place where the injury occurred. ( Under the Act, the federal government waives its sovereign immunity for specified injuries, including certain wrongful acts or omissions of a government employee causing injury that the United States, if it were a private person, would be liable for under the law of the state where the incident occurred. 28 USCA § 1346(b).