Passing from place to place; that may pass or be changed from one place to another; not confined to one place; the opposite of “local.” Transitory action. Actions are said to be either local or transitory. An action is “local,” when the principal facts on which it is founded pertain to a particular place. An action is termed “transitory,” when the principal fact on which it is founded is of a transitory kind, and might be supposed to have happened anywhere ; and therefore all actions founded on debts, contracts and such like matters relating to the person or personal property, come under this latter denomination.