Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

renvoi

n. [French "sending back"] 1. The doctrine under which a court in resorting to foreign law adopts as well the foreign law's conflict-of-laws principles, which may in turn refer the court back to the law of the forum. 2. The problem arising when one state's rule on conflict of laws refers a case to the law of another state, and that second state's conflictof-law rule refers the case either back to the law of the first state or to a third state. See CONFLICT OF LAWS. 3. RECONDUCTION (2).