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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DISCHARGE n.
1.  Extinction of a charge on property. For example, the discharge of an immovable from a servitude or a hypothec. Occ. Arts. 100, 1671, 1692 C.C.Q.; s. 27, An Act respecting the Ministère du revenu, R.S.Q. c. M-31; s. 62, An Act respecting the Québec Pension Plan, R.S.Q. c. R-9.Obs. The discharge of the debtor results from the extinction of his or her obligation. Article 1671 C.C.Q. sets forth a list of the main causes of extinction of obligations: payment, expiry of an extinctive term, novation, prescription, compensation, confusion, release, impossibility of performance and acquisition by a prior or hypothecary creditor of the property on which he or she has a claim. The legislature designates this last cause of extinction by the expression discharge of the debtor (title preceding art. 1695 C.C.Q; arts. 1695, 1696 C.C.Q.). Syn. release2. See also  confusion, extinction, real right. Fr. libération1.2.  Fact of being released from an obligation whatever the cause of extinction of the said obligation. For example, the discharge of a debtor by a remission of the debt (art. 1687 C.C.Q). Occ. Arts. 100, 1671, 1692 C.C.Q.; s. 27, An Act respecting the Ministère du revenu, R.S.Q. c. M-31; s. 62, An Act respecting the Québec Pension Plan, R.S.Q. c. R-9.Obs. The discharge of the debtor results from the extinction of his or her obligation. Article 1671 C.C.Q. sets forth a list of the main causes of extinction of obligations: payment, expiry of an extinctive term, novation, prescription, compensation, confusion, release, impossibility of performance and acquisition by a prior or hypothecary creditor of the property on which he or she has a claim. The legislature designates this last cause of extinction by the expression discharge of the debtor (title preceding art. 1695 C.C.Q; arts. 1695, 1696 C.C.Q.). Syn. release3. See also  confusion, extinction. Fr. décharge, libération2+.3.  Extinction of an obligation resulting from the acquisition by a prior or hypothecary creditor of the property on which he or she has a claim.  Occ. Title preceding art. 1695 C.C.Q.; art. 1671 C.C.Q.Obs. 1º The discharge of the debtor is a cause of extinction of obligations according to articles 1695 and 1696 C.C.Q. 2º The discharge of the debtor is determined by the market value of the property rather than by the price the creditor paid to acquire it (art. 1695 C.C.Q.). 3º Since discharge also describes a consequence of the extinction of obligations, the use of the same term to designate a particular cause of extinction of obligations can be misleading. In this sense, the title of the corresponding section of the C.C.L.C., Of the discharge of certain debtors, was a better choice. 4º The codal regime respecting the discharge of the debtor is set forth at articles 1695 to 1698 C.C.Q. See also  extinction. Fr. libération3.
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