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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PATRIMONY n.
Universality of rights1 and obligations3 having a pecuniary value in which rights answer for obligations. “[...] it has been said that the power, the faculty of acquiring new rights is the distinctive element that gives unity to the different parts of which a patrimony is formed. This power projected upon the future is also engaged by the debtor in the obligation and not the present content of his patrimony alone” (Litvinoff, in Treatise, vol. 6, n° 14, p. 34).  Occ. Arts. 2, 302, 1260 C.C.Q.; art. 735.1 C.C.L.C.; s. 43, Public Curator Act, R.S.Q. c. C-81.Obs. 1º The patrimony is formed of present property and obligations and has the vocation to receive future property and obligations. 2º Certain rights, while susceptible of giving rise to an evaluation in monetary terms when violated, are nevertheless excluded from the patrimony. This is the case, in principle, for personality rights and human rights and freedoms. 3º In the French Civilian tradition, the classical theory of the patrimony was articulated in the nineteenth century by Aubry and Rau in their celebrated Cours de droit civil français d’après la méthode de Zachariæ. Their work was seen as remarkable given that the theory was not explicit in the French Code Civil. They viewed the patrimony as an emanation of legal personality and characterized it as indivisible and non-transmissible inter vivos. The theory carries with it three corollaries: every person has a patrimony; every person has only one patrimony; a patrimony cannot exist without a person as its titulary. 4º The theory of patrimony is one justification of the principle according to which the property of a person is the common pledge of his or her creditors (art. 2644 C.C.Q.). 5º The Civil Code of Québec departs from this classical theory in that it allows that a patrimony be divided and appropriated to a purpose (art. 2 C.C.Q.). 6º The Civil Code of Québec makes liberal use of the term patrimony in contrast with the Civil Code of Lower Canada in which occurrences were rare (e.g. arts. 325, 1701.1 C.C.L.C.). 7º From the Latin patrimonium from pater: father. See also  object not in commerce, patrimonial right. Fr. patrimoine.
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