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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RESTITUTION n.
(Obl.) Fact of returning property received without due cause. “If a thing received initially in kind cannot be restored, restitution is made by payment of the value of the thing determined according to the good or bad faith of the initial recipient” (Boodman, (1995) 6 S. C. L. R. 45, p. 47). Restitution of fruits; restitution of the price; restitution of prestations. Occ. Title preceding art. 1699 C.C.Q.; arts. 1492, 1694, 1699 to 1701, 1838, 2265 C.C.Q.; art. 1513 C.C.L.C.; art. 470 C.C.P.; ss. 63, 64, 77, 211, Consumer Protection Act, R.S.Q. c. P-40.1; s. 81, International Sale of Goods Contracts Convention Act, S.C. 1991, c. 13.Obs. 1º Article 1699 C.C.Q. provides for restitution where a person has received property unlawfully, by error, or under a juridical act that may not be performed by reason of superior force. Restitution also takes place following the annulment or the resolution of a juridical act. 2º In principle, restitution is made in kind. When this is impossible or cannot be effected without serious inconvenience, restitution is made by equivalence (art. 1700 C.C.Q.). 3º Full restitution is, in principle, the rule as is the case of restitution in kind. Restitution by equivalence may not amount to full restitution where it does not correspond to the value of the property when it was received. Where restitution would have the effect of procuring an undue advantage to one party, the court may refuse to order it or modify its scope (art. 1699 C.C.Q.). 4º Restitution does not take place where the property has perished by superior force; the debtor must, however, assign to the creditor the indemnity he or she has received, or his or her right to an indemnity (art. 1701 C.C.Q.). 5º A special chapter of the Civil Code (arts. 1699 to 1707 C.C.Q.) provides for the general regime relating to restitution. It may be observed that this regime is different from the Common law theory of restitution notwithstanding that, in both traditions, the general theory of restitution may be connected to the idea of unjust enrichment. 6º From the Latin restitutio: a restoring. See also  nullity, reparation, resolution1, restitution by equivalence, restitution in kind, restitution of a thing not due, superior force1, superior force2. Fr. restitution.
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