Courts faced with a choice of law issue have a two-stage process: 1. the court will apply the law of the forum (lex fori) to all (1) matters (including, self-evidently, the choice of law rules); and 2. it counts the factors that connect or link the (2) to the laws of potentially relevant states and applies the laws that have the greatest connection, e.g. the law of nationality (lex patriae) or (3) (lex domicilii) will define legal status and (4) , the law of the state in which land is situated (lex situs) will be applied to determine all questions of (5) , the law of the place where a transaction physically takes place or of the occurrence that gave rise to the (6) (lex loci actus) will often be the controlling law selected when the matter is (7) , but the proper law has become a more common choice.