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Latin for 'the place.' For example, lawyers talk of the 'locus delicti' as the pace where a criminal offense was commited or 'loco parentis' to refer to a person who stands in the place of a parent such as a step-parent in a common law relationship. - (read more on LL.B., L.M. or LL.D.)