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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LAW n.
1.  Body of rules which a particular group or community recognizes as binding on its members or subjectsLaw, the quest of all men of good will and more especially of jurists, cannot be sought exclusively in written texts; its definition and very nature would change if it were no longer regarded as the expression of what is just, but simply as the will of those who govern” (David and Brierley, Major Legal Systems, pp 103-104) Syn. jus2Ant. rightSee also  administrative law, canon law, civil law, codified law, commercial law, constitutional law, customary law, domestic law, error of law, general principles of law, imperative law1, internal law, international law, mixed law, natural law, old french law, penal law, positive law, praetorian law, public law, roman law, special law, statutory law, suppletive law, system of law, unwritten law, written lawFr. droit1+, droit objectif, jus2.2.  Juridical act of a legislative or executive state authority which establishes a legal ruleThe law is always speaking. Occ. Arts 6, 23 C.C.Obs. 1º In this sense, the law includes juridical rules (statutes) decreed by the legislative organ as well as those (regulations) adopted by the executive branch2º In the tradition of a Civil Code, law of an imperative character is distinguished from law of a suppletive nature3º It is said that the law enacts, prescribes, states or provides, rather than stipulates, a term which is used primarily with regard to contractsAnt. custom2, doctrine1, jurisprudence1See also  declaratory law, evasion of the law, legislation1, moveable by determination of law, prohibitive lawFr. loi1+.3.  Syn. juridical rule Obs. The law2 is the instrument by which the laws in this sense are enactedSee also  general law, imperative law2, personal law, real lawFr. loi3, précepte juridique, règle de droit+, règle juridique.4.  Juridical system of a stateMoveable property is governed by the law of the domicile of its owner” (art. 6 para. 2 C.C.)Foreign law, local law. Syn. internal law1See also  conflict of laws, extraterritorial law, personality of laws, territoriality of lawsFr. loi4+, loi interne1.
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