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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DAMAGE n.
(Obl.) Injury suffered through the infringement of the rights or interests of a person. “Damage generally results from several sets of facts. Once the primary circumstances are established, the determination of a causal relation between one or more facts evincing fault and the damage presupposes a choice, an appraisal and a characterization of the facts” (Morin v. Blais, [1977] 1 S.C.R. 570, p. 578, J. Beetz, J.). To incur damage; to repair the damage. Occ. Arts. 164, 1860, 2481, 3129 C.C.Q.; arts. 1053, 1054 C.C.L.C.; s. 278, An Act respecting the implementation of the reform of the Civil Code, S.Q. 1992, c. 57.Obs. 1º Damage, fault and causation are the three traditional requirements to establish civil liability. 2º Although damage is often defined by scholars as an infringement upon the rights or interests of a person, more than a mere infringement is required to establish damage. The infringement must be considered through its consequences, as these are suffered by the victim. In this respect, some scholars have defined damage as the consequence of an infringement upon the rights or interests of a person. 3º The victim has a right to compensation if the damage suffered is the direct and immediate result of a wrongful act or omission. The damage must also be certain and constitute an infringement upon a licit interest. In contractual matters, the damage must be foreseeable at the time the obligation was contracted. 4º There are three kinds of damage: bodily, moral and material (arts. 1457, 1607 C.C.Q.). These various types of damage may manifest themselves in pecuniary or non-pecuniary losses or by a lost profit. Any such loss may be compensated by damages (art. 1611 C.C.Q.). 5º In the Civil Code of Québec, the legislature has preferred to use the word injury rather than damage, particularly in the chapter on civil liability. This terminological change may be explained, in part, as an effort to avoid the common confusion between damage, used in the sense of injury, and damages, used to designate the compensation owed to the victim. Nevertheless, the term damage is in current use in Quebec legal language. 6º From the Latin damnum and the Old French damage: loss. Syn. harm, injury, loss2, prejudice, wrong2. See also  bodily injury, causation2, certain damage, civil fault, civil liability, collective injury, continuous damage, damages, direct damage, foreseeable damage, future damage, indirect damage, initial damage, licit damage, loss1, loss of (a) chance, material damage, moral damage, possible damage, present damage, profit deprived, rebounding damage, reparation1, victim. Fr. dommage+, préjudice+, tort2.
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