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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GIFT n.
1.  (Obl.Contract by gratuitous title that entails disposition2 of propertyArticle 1806 C.C.Q. views the gift as a translatory contract that transfers a right of ownership of a thing or some other real right in its regard, or again some other right, from the donor to the donee such that the donor is impoverished and the donee is enriched by virtue of the liberal intention of the former” (Brierley, in Mélanges Crépeau, 119, p. 133)To transfer property by gift. Occ. Arts. 173, 211, 415, 613, 737, 867, 1212, 1240, 1258, 1279, 1806 C.C.Q.; arts. 754, 776 C.C.L.C.; art. 553 C.C.P.Obs. 1º Gifts are formalistic contracts. In principle, gifts must be made by a notarial deed en minute and must be published. With regards to movable property, delivery, which is also a formality, may replace the notarial deed and publicity requirements (art. 1824 C.C.Q.). In this latter case, gifts are called manual gifts2º Indirect gifts and disguised gifts are assimilated to gifts, except as to their form (art. 1811 C.C.Q.)3º The parties to a contract of gift are called the donor and the donee. However, where gifts are used for the establishment of a trust, it should be noted that the transfer of property is made to a patrimony by appropriation, not to a donee (art. 1260 C.C.Q.)4º Gifts inter vivos, by which the donor deprives himself or herself immediately of property (art. 1807 C.C.Q.), are to be distinguished from gifts mortis causa where the divestment is conditional upon and postponed until the donor’s death (art. 1808 C.C.Q.)5º Gifts inter vivos are valid only as to present property, whereas gifts mortis causa may bear on future property (art. 1818 C.C.Q.)6º A gift mortis causa is null unless it is made by marriage contract or unless it may be upheld as a legacy (art. 1819 C.C.Q.)7º The codal regime respecting gifts is set forth at articles 1806 to 1841 C.C.QSyn. contract of gift, donationSee also  liberality1Fr. contrat de donation, don1, donation+.2.  (Obl.Object of a gift1To receive a gift. Occ. Art. 700 C.C.L.C.Fr. don2.
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