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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LIABILITY FOR DAMAGE CAUSED BY THINGS
(Obl.) Civil liability incurred by a person for the damage caused by a thing by reason of the control he or she exercises over it.  Obs. 1º The codal regimes respecting liability for damage caused by things include liability for damage caused by animals, buildings and inanimate things, as well as liability resulting from safety defects in manufactured products (arts. 1465 to 1469 C.C.Q.). 2º Liability for damage caused by animals and buildings have their origins in Roman law. At the time of the enactment of the Civil Code of Lower Canada, liability for damage caused by things was understood to be limited to those two types of liability. The owner of immovable property is still liable for the damage caused by its ruin (art. 1467 C.C.Q.). The owner and the custodian of an animal are also both liable for the damage caused by it (art. 1466 C.C.Q.). 3º In the early part of the twentieth century courts, confronted with claims arising from frequent industrial accidents, eventually created a regime of liability for damage caused by inanimate things on the basis of article 1054 para. 1 C.C.L.C. Article 1465 C.C.Q. expressly provides that the custodian is liable for the damage resulting from the autonomous act of the thing. If it is a thing other than an immovable or an animal, he or she may be exonerated by proving absence of fault. 4º Article 1468 C.C.Q. states that the manufacturer, the distributor and the supplier of movable property are liable for injury resulting from a safety defect in the thing. See also  act of a thing, indirect liability, liability for damage caused by animals, liability for damage caused by another, liability for damage caused by buildings, liability for damage caused by inanimate things, personal liability2, product liability, vicarious liability. Fr. responsabilité du fait des biens, responsabilité du fait des choses+.
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