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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DE FACTO INCAPACITY (latin)
(Pers.) Physical or mental disability precluding a person from making a decision or from expressing his or her will.  Occ. S. 423(7), An Act respecting the implementation of the reform of the Civil Code, S.Q. 1992, c. 57.Obs. 1º De facto incapacity is considered in matters of consent to care and establishment of protective supervision of persons of full age. The criteria used in evaluating such incapacity and its legal consequences vary however according to the situation or decision in respect of which the issue arises. Thus, in matters pertaining to consent to care, once a person’s de facto incapacity is observed, it may give rise to the exercise of substituted consent by another authorized by law (art. 11 para. 2 C.C.Q.). In matters of protective regimes, the degree of de facto incapacity of a person to care for himself or herself or to administer his or her property will determine the appropriate protective supervision (arts. 258, 259 C.C.Q.). 2º In matters of capacity to contract, de facto capacity of the person is considered in addition to legal capacity. In the case of de facto incapacity, it is said that consent has not been given to the juridical act since the person can neither understand the consequences of his or her acts nor express his or her will. 3º Section 423(7) of An Act respecting the implementation of the reform of the Civil Code (S.Q. 1992, c. 57) provides that the expression physical or mental incapacity must be replaced by de facto incapacity when used in statutes and other statutory instruments. 4º The Civil Code does not make an explicit distinction between legal incapacity and de facto incapacity. Unlike the French text which generally uses the term inaptitude when referring to de facto incapacity, the English text uses the terms incapacity to refer to both notions (e.g. arts. 259, 270, 295, 2128, 2166 C.C.Q.). It is interesting to note that to highlight this distinction, the Civil Code of Lower Canada used the term inability when referring to inaptitude (e.g. arts. 19.2, 332.2, 1731.1 C.C.L.C.). Syn. factual incapacity, inability, incapacity2, natural incapacity. See also  consent2, de facto capacity, incapable2, incapable person2, legal incapacity, mandate2, nullity. Fr. inaptitude+, incapacité2, incapacité de fait+, incapacité naturelle+.
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