What is "renvoi"

n. 1 discharge, firing. 2 (context legal English): A situation in which a court, tasked with deciding which state's law should apply to a case, decides to apply the law of the forum based on the determination that a court from another involved state would also apply the law of the forum. 3 temporary call forwarding 4 cross-reference ''(in text)''

In conflict of laws, renvoi (from the French, meaning "send back" or "to return unopened") is a subset of the choice of law rules and it may be applied whenever a forum court is directed to consider the law of another state.