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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CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT
(Obl.) Contract by which a physical person, the employee, undertakes, against remuneration and for a limited time, to perform work on the behalf of and under the direction or control of another person, the employer. “Where an employer decides unilaterally to make substantial changes to the essential terms of an employee’s contract of employment and the employee does not agree to the changes and leaves his or her job, the employee has not resigned, but has been dismissed” (Farber v. Royal Trust Co., [1997] 1 S.C.R. 846, p. 850, C.D. Gonthier, J.).  Occ. Arts. 1976, 2085 C.C.Q.; ss. 234, 237, An Act respecting industrial accidents and occupational diseases, R.S.Q. c. A-3.001.Obs. 1º The subordination of the employee to the employer is said to be of the essence of a contract of employment. Its presence serves to distinguish the contract of employment from the contract of enterprise and the contract for services. 2º Subordination implies an element of control, which the employer may exercise strictly (e.g. by providing precise instructions as to the performance) or with flexibility (e.g. by providing a general framework to the employee). 3º Unlike the French text of article 2085 of the Civil Code, the English text refers explicitly to the instructions given by the employer to the employee. This discrepancy did not appear in the recommendations of the C.C.R.O. (art. 667, Bk V, Draft Civil Code, C.C.R.O.). 4º The contract of employment may be for a fixed or an indeterminate term (art. 2086 C.C.Q.). 5º The employment contract is not subject to any requirements of form. A non-competition clause contained in a contract of employment must, however, be stipulated in writing (art. 2089 C.C.Q.). 6º Although the expression contract of employment refers, in general, only to the individual contract of employment, it is sometimes used to designate collective agreements. 7º The lease and hire of personal services, which was a kind of lease and hire of work under the Civil Code of Lower Canada, corresponds to the contract of employment under the Civil Code of Québec (arts. 1665a, 1667 C.C.L.C.). 8º The codal regime respecting the contract of employment is set forth at articles 2085 to 2097 C.C.Q. Syn. contract of lease and hire of personal service(s), contract of lease (and hire) of services1, employment contract, individual contract of employment, work contract. See also  contract for (of) services, contract of enterprise, employee1, employer1, mandate1. Fr. contrat d'emploi, contrat de louage de services1, contrat de louage de service(s) personnel(s), contrat de travail+, contrat individuel de travail, louage de service(s) personnel(s).
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