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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JUSTICE n.
1.  Virtue seeking to preserve and promote values, such as fairness, equality, dignity and liberty, that is understood as a finality of law1. “Justice is a continual balancing of competing visions, plural viewpoints, shifting histories, interests, and allegiances” (Williams, Alchemy of Race and Rights, p. 121).  Obs. 1º For some scholars, the pursuit of justice is the fundamental goal of law1. 2º Justice has been defined historically as the art of giving what is owed to each person. ; hHowever, many definitions of justice are possible, depending on whether one focuses on a conception of justice that is abstract and absolute, or, alternatively, on a conception that is concrete and relative. 3º One traditionally distinguishes A distinction is often drawn between distributive (or social) justice, which seeks to ensure the distribution of goods and honours in proportion to one’s merit within a given society, from commutative (or corrective) justice, which aims to maintain or establish a formal equality in respect of intentional or unintentional exchanges between individuals. Some scholars defend an idea of contractual justice, founded upon the notion of corrective justice, according to which each contracting party garners an advantage equivalent to what he or she brings to the contract. This notion is also said to underlie the compensatory goal of the law of civil liability. 4º Scholars argue that the law predicated on one or another conception of justice may intervene to establish an equilibrium in contractual or extracontractual relationships by invoking, for example, good faith (art. 6 C.C.Q.), abuse of right (art. 7 C.C.Q.) or lesion caused by disproportionate prestations and exploitation of a contractual party (art. 1406 C.C.Q.). See also  equity1, natural law. Fr. justice1.2.  Pursuit of that which can legitimately be expected from the law1. “There is a question of justice and injustice only where there is a plurality of individuals and some practical question concerning their situation and/or interactions vis-à-vis each other” (Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights, p.161).  Fr. justice2.
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