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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COPYRIGHT n.
Intellectual property right in an original work. “Those advancing a more absolutist view of copyright often import terms from property discourse, particularly the term and concept of ‘ownership’ or ‘propriété.’ In and of itself, this importing is not problematic: copyright (and indeed other sorts of intellectual resources) have a great number of affinities with more traditional forms of property resources. However, what is usually lacking from this application of property terms and concepts is the full nuance of property discourse” (Lametti, in In the Public Interest, p. 486). Copyright infringement; copyright protection. Occ. S. 2, Copyright Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-42.Obs. 1º There are two competing theories with respect to copyright. According to the first view, which is generally accepted by scholars, copyright encompasses both the author’s patrimonial rights (also called economic rights) and his extrapatrimonial rights (also called moral rights). The second theory limits copyright to the author’s patrimonial rights; it considers the author’s extrapatrimonial rights to be prerogatives distinct from the copyright. The Copyright Act defines the terms copyright and moral right separately (s. 2, Copyright Act). As defined, the nature of a copyright is purely patrimonial (s. 3(1), Copyright Act). 2º The equivalence made, in particular by the Copyright Act, between the expressions copyright and droit d’auteur is open to criticism. The notion of droit d’auteur views the work as an extension of the personality of the author. By contrast, the notion of copyright enshrines an economic conception and views the work as an object of commerce, destined for sale and reproduction. 3º Since copyright comprises a set of exclusive rights (e.g. the rights to publish, to reproduce, to communicate the work to the public by telecommunication), one may use the expression copyright interest to refer to each of these rights. However, since copyright interest can convey other meanings, all but a minority of jurists use more precise terms, to clearly indicate which rights they have in view. 4º Copyright is temporary; in Canada, it generally expires at the end of the fiftieth year following that of the author’s death (s. 6, Copyright Act). 5º Copyright law is governed by the Copyright Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-42). See also  industrial design, intellectual property right, moral right, public domain2. Fr. droit d’auteur2.
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