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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IMMOVABLE n.
1.  Thing which is, or is deemed to be, not susceptible of displacement. For example, land.“The fact that the bridge is built on the bed of a river belonging to the Crown presents no difficulty. The statute declares the appellant’s ownership of it; and its attachment to the soil gives to it its character of an immovable” (Bélair v. Ste-Rose (Ville) (1922), 63 S.C.R. 526, p. 531, F.A. Anglin, J.).  Occ. Art. 900 C.C.Q.; art. 660 C.C.P.; s. 1, An Act respecting municipal taxation, R.S.Q. c. F-2.1; s. 38, Expropriation Act, R.S.Q. c. E-24.Obs. 1º The law considers things to be immovables either by reason of their physical characteristics or by taking into account other criteria, including their contribution to the utility of an immovable (art. 901 C.C.Q.). 2º The distinction between movables and immovables is a summa divisio in the law of property. This classification of the general law is applied throughout the Civil Code, as well as in other legislative texts, including those with respect to civil procedure, taxation and expropriation. 3º As originally enacted, the English and French texts of article 900 C.C.Q. were divergent. The French text referred to that which is an integral part of an immovable as a distinct class of immovables whereas the English text suggested that this is merely an additional characteristic of constructions and works of a permanent nature. The English text has been subsequently modified (s. 15, An Act to amend the Civil Code and other legislative provisions, S.Q. 2002, c. 19). 4º The spelling “immoveable” is also used, as it was systematically in the Civil Code of Lower Canada. Syn. corporeal immovable, real estate, real property, realty. See also  immatriculation (of an immovable), immobilization, immovable by annexation, immovable by determination of law, immovable by nature, property2, movable1. Fr. immeuble1+, immeuble corporel.2.  Right that bears upon an immovable. For example, a servitude. Occ. Art. 904 C.C.Q.Obs. 1º The distinction between movables and immovables applies not only to corporeals but also to patrimonial rights. 2º Article 904 C.C.Q. characterizes actions which assert real rights in immovables as immovables. The possessory actions, while not based on real rights, are nevertheless characterized as immovables since they are brought with respect to an immovable. 3º Exceptionally, the law declares rights to be immovable that, because of their object, might otherwise be thought to be movable. For example, hypothecs on rents produced by an immovable are considered immovable, notwithstanding that, in principle, rents are movable (art. 2695 C.C.Q.). Syn. immovable by reason of the object to which it is attached, incorporeal immovable. See also  immovable by determination of law, movable2. Fr. immeuble2+, immeuble incorporel, immeuble par l’objet auquel il s’attache.3.  Syn. building. “The immovables making up Place Northcrest, which the respondent described as ‘very luxurious’, are upscale buildings whose co-owners have a marked interest in maintaining their harmony and aesthetic value” (Syndicat Northcrest v. Amselem, [2004] 2 S.C.R. 551, p. 604, M. Bastarache, J.).  Occ. Arts. 1057, 1894 C.C.Q.Obs. Like land, buildings are typical examples of immovables because they are immovable by nature. Fr. bâtiment+, bâtisse, immeuble3.
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