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 regulating life in society the adherence to which, where not done spontaneously, is assured by a constraint external to the individual, which constraint is most often associated with the idea of sanction. “Law, 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 & Brierley, Major Legal Systems, pp. 103-104). Customary law. Obs. 1º Legal theorists disagree as to law’s defining characteristic, sometimes designated as the criterion for legality, which distinguishes law from other normative orders. For some, the criterion is seen as a matter of substance, law being defined as a body of rules intended to regulate life in society. Others fix on matters of form, such as when emphasis is placed on the manner of expression of the rule of law. Alternatively, some scholars argue that the criterion is to be found in the requirement that law must be external and binding upon the subject to whom it applies. Each of these criteria has its limitations; for example, in the case of the insistence upon sanction, not all legal rules are sanctioned by public authority, and some non-legal rules are subject to sanction. 2º Such long standing debates among legal theorists would suggest that the effort to define an all-encompassing definition of law is difficult if not impossible. Positivists consider law to be either a state-sanctioned phenomenon (state-centred legal positivism) or a social phenomenon (sociological positivism). Legal pluralists recognize the existence of multiple orders of law that apply simultaneously to individuals. Jurists in the natural law tradition view law ultimately as a single, permanent and universal phenomenon that does not necessarily depend on the state, but that is rooted in nature, reason or the divine. 3º In the positivist tradition, law and morality are considered distinctive spheres of normativity which may or may not overlap. On this view, law is comprised of rules designed to control social behaviour that are, by reason of this mode of production and their mode of enforcement, external to the person to whom they apply. Conversely rules of morality, imagined as an individual path to perfection, are often said to be internal to the subject in that, in the final analysis, the individual is answerable for them in conscience only instead of before the whole society. Syn. jus1. Fr. droit1+, droit objectif, jus1.2.  Juridical act adopted by an organ of the State.  Occ. Preliminary Provision, arts. 11, 37, 46, 299, 1257, 2659, 3080 C.C.Q.; arts. 6, 23, 300 C.C.L.C.; arts. 36, 56, 100 C.C.P.; preamble, Charter of human rights and freedoms, R.S.Q. c. C-12.Obs. Following this acception, the notion of law can be used to designate any juridical rule elaborated by an authorized State organ. Fr. loi1.
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