Afin de faire état de la terminologie du droit privé québécois, le Centre Paul-André Crépeau de droit privé et comparé a lancé en 1981 le projet des Dictionnaires de droit privé et lexiques bilingues.

En exprimant le droit privé dans les langues anglaise et française, les Dictionnaires de droit privé / Private Law Dictionaries sont des outils de connaissance originaux qui tiennent compte du fait que le droit privé québécois évolue dans un cadre linguistique et juridique unique au monde. Ils constituent les seuls ouvrages de terminologie juridique pouvant prétendre refléter la spécificité bilingue et bijuridique de la culture juridique québécoise, en plus d’être un outil essentiel pour l’ensemble des juristes québécois, pour les traducteurs juridiques, pour les juristes de l’ensemble du Canada intéressés par le droit civil québécois et, enfin, pour les juristes œuvrant en droit comparé.

Cette page vous donne accès, dans leurs versions française et anglaise, aux dictionnaires suivants : le Dictionnaire de droit privé, 2ème (1991), Le Dictionnaire de droit privé — Les obligations (2003), Le dictionnaire de droit privé — Les biens (2012), Le Dictionnaire de droit privé — Les familles, 2èmeéd (2016). Un projet de Dictionnaire de droit privé — Successions est actuellement en cours, et sera progressivement ajouté à la base de données.

Afin de faciliter vos recherches, nous vous invitons à consulter la page de présentation des Dictionnaires, qui expose les principes ayant guidé la présentation des entrées et présente les différents éléments qui forment la structure des articles. La rubrique d’aide pourra également vous être utile afin de découvrir les diverses fonctionnalités du moteur de recherche.

Le Centre Paul-André Crépeau de droit privé et comparé tient à remercier le Ministère de la Justice du Canada et la Chambre des Notaires pour leur appui financier pour la conduite des projets lexicographiques ainsi que l’Association du Barreau Canadien qui contribua à la mise en ligne Dictionnaire de droit privé — Les familles, 2èmeéd (2016).

In 1981, the Paul-André Crépeau Centre of Private and Comparative Law launched its Private Law Dictionaries and Bilingual Lexicons in order to present the terminology of the Quebec private law.

By expressing the private law in the French and English languages, the Private Law Dictionaries/Dictionnaires de droit privé are original tools which take account of the unique linguistic and juridical landscape in which the Quebec private law evolves. These are the only publications of legal terminology which can claim to reflect the bilingual and bijuridical specificity of Quebec’s legal culture. They serve as an essential tool for jurists and translators in Québec, for those across Canada interested in the Québec civil law, as well as for those working in the field of comparative law.

This website gives access, in their French and English versions, to the following dictionaries : the Private Law Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1991), the Private Law Dicitonary–Obligations (2003), the Dictionary of Private Law–Property (2012), the Private Law Dictionary–Family, 2nd ed. (2016). The Private Law Dictionary-Successions is in progress, and will gradually be added to the database.

To facilitate your research, please consult the "Guide to the Use of the Dictionaries", which presents the guiding principles behind the entries and the different components of their structure. The Help Section may also be useful in understanding the search engine’s various functions.

The Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law would like to thank the Department of Justice of Canada and the Chambre des Notaires for their financial support of the dictionary projects, as well as The Canadian Bar Association, which will contribute to the online version of the Private Law Dictionary of the Family, 2nd ed. (2016).


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CIVIL LIABILITY
(Obl.) Juridical responsibility entailing the obligation to repair harm caused to another person. “[...] the possibility of the rifle being fired in an unlocked position, when to the ordinary and even cautious user the bolt action would appear to be locked, is a latent defect of the Ross rifle entailing the civil liability of the appellant as its manufacturer for the damages incurred by the respondents” (Ross v. Dunstall (1921), 62 S.C.R. 393, p. 420, P.B. Mignault, J.).  Occ. Title preceding art. 1457 C.C.Q.; arts. 2498, 3129 C.C.Q.; art. 2600 C.C.L.C.; s. 85, An Act respecting the implementation of the reform of the Civil Code, S.Q. 1992, c. C-57; s. 438, An Act respecting industrial accidents and occupational diseases, R.S.Q. c. A-3.001; s. 85, Automobile Insurance Act, R.S.Q. c. A-25.Obs. 1º Civil liability has two regimes: contractual liability and extracontractual liability. 2º The constituent elements of civil liability are traditionally considered to be fault, damage and causation. One may be held liable for a personal fault and, in certain instances, for the act or fault of another or for the act of a thing. 3º Civil liability confers upon the victim the right to claim compensation for the harm suffered. However, in certain instances, other remedies may be obtained, such as the cessation of harm or even the prevention of an anticipated injury. 4º Damages obtained through the application of the rules of civil liability are in principle purely compensatory. However, in certain circumstances they may be of a punitive nature. This is the case when such damages are provided for by law (see art. 1621 C.C.Q. and, by way of example, s. 49 para. 2, Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, R.S.Q. c. C-12) or by a penal clause (art. 1622 C.C.Q.). 5º The establishment of parallel regimes of indemnification based upon legal liability without regard to fault has altered the application of the traditional principles of the general regime of civil liability (e.g. An Act respecting industrial accidents and occupational diseases, R.S.Q. c. A-3.001; Automobile Insurance Act, R.S.Q. c. A-25). 6º The codal regime respecting civil liability is set forth at articles 1457 to 1481 C.C.Q. Syn. civil responsibility. See also  causation1, causation2, civil fault, compensatory damages1, compensatory damages2, contractual liability, damage, extracontractual liability, imputability1, imputable1, juridical responsibility, liability for damage caused by another, liability for damage caused by things, no-fault liability, obligation2, personal liability2, punitive damages, reparation1, strict liability. Fr. responsabilité civile+.
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