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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EVENTUAL RIGHT
1.  Present, yet imperfect, right that will become definitive upon the realization of a future but uncertain intrinsic element necessary to its perfection. For example, right of a substitute to property of a substitution while it is in the possession of the institute (art. 1235 C.C.Q.), the rights set forth in a marriage contract signed before the celebration.“[...] some of the central institutions for the transfer of wealth presuppose the gradual acquisition of the economic value of the right (or of the thing) prior to its definitive vesting (conditional, future and eventual rights)” (Macdonald, (1994) 39 McGill L.J. 761, p. 792).  Occ. Art. 1235 C.C.Q.; art. 956 C.C.L.C.Obs. 1º An eventual right, when considered in the context of the gradual creation of a right, is an intermediate stage between a mere hope and a definitive right. 2º An eventual right is patrimonial in nature. It is susceptible of legal protection and, as such, is a present right. Thus, the titulary thereof can, as a matter of principle, renounce or dispose of it, and perform all conservatory acts (e.g. art. 1235 C.C.Q.). 3º An eventual right and a right subject to a suspensive condition, while sharing some characteristics (the occurrence of a future and uncertain event), are nonetheless distinguishable in other respects. The eventual right depends, for its formation, upon the occurrence of an intrinsic event essential to its perfection (e.g. the death of the institute causing the opening of the substitution). On the other hand, a right subject to a suspensive condition is dependent on the occurrence of an extrinsic event unnecessary for its creation (e.g. the sale of a house if the vendor is appointed to a foreign posting). Once the condition is fulfilled, in the case of a right subject to a suspensive condition, its effects are retroactive, whereas in the case of an eventual right, its effects begin only from the moment the event rendering the right definitive happens. See also  conditional right, contingent right2, definitive right, mere expectancy. Fr. droit éventuel1.2.  Right that is susceptible of coming into existence.  Syn. contingent right1. Fr. droit éventuel2.
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