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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PARTNERSHIP n.
1.  (Obl.) Group of persons, the partners, who, in a spirit of cooperation, agree to carry on an activity dedicated to the realization of a financial gain, and to which activity each person contributes property, knowledge or industry, and from which gain the partners may claim a share. “Finally, I feel it is appropriate to issue a caution against the danger of concluding too readily to the existence of tacit partnerships, for the admittedly admirable purpose of compensating for the injustice resulting from the situation in which concubines are often placed” (Beaudoin-Daigneault v. Richard, [1984] 1 S.C.R. 2, p. 17, A. Lamer, J.).  Occ. Arts. 909, 2187 C.C.Q.; arts. 1831, 1839 C.C.L.C.Obs. 1º The Civil Code of Québec provides for three kinds of partnership: general partnership, limited partnership and undeclared partnership. 2º Such partnerships are established by contract, as opposed, for example, to partnerships that take the form of joint-stock companies. The establishment of the latter requires the intervention of a public authority in accordance with a formal procedure generally provided for in a special statute, such as the Companies Act (R.S.Q. c. C-38) or Canada Business Corporations Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-44). 3º Unlike partnerships that are joint-stock companies, partnerships established by contract are not endowed with juridical personality (art. 2188 C.C.Q.). 4º Partnerships may be distinguished from undivided co-ownership insofar as partnerships reflect a "spirit of cooperation", the affectio societatis, i.e. an intention of the parties to participate together in a joint business endeavour. 5º Partnerships may be distinguished from associations in that the former seek the realization of a financial gain to be shared between the members (art. 2186 C.C.Q.). 6º In the Civil Code of Québec, commercial partnerships are no longer distinguished from civil ones (arts. 1863 et seq. C.C.L.C.). With respect to this distinction, it may be observed that the notion of commerciality has been replaced by the wider notion of enterprise in the Civil Code of Québec (art. 1525 para. 3 C.C.Q.). See also  association, contract of partnership, contribution (to the partnership), enterprise, general partnership, limited partnership, partner, undeclared partnership. Fr. société1.2.  (Obl.) Syn. contract of partnership.  Fr. contrat de société+, société2.
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