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, 2^ème (1991), Le Dictionnaire de droit privé — Les obligations (2003), Le dictionnaire de droit privé — Les biens (2012), Le Dictionnaire de droit privé — Les familles, 2^èmeéd (2016). Un projet de Dictionnaire de droit privé — Successions est actuellement en cours, et sera progressivement ajouté à la base de données.

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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, 2^èmeéd (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, 2^nd ed. (1991), the Private Law Dicitonary–Obligations (2003), the Dictionary of Private Law–Property (2012), the Private Law Dictionary–Family, 2^nd ed. (2016). The Private Law Dictionary-Successions is in progress, and will gradually be added to the database.

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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, 2^nd ed. (2016).

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PRINCIPAL n.

1. That which, in a relation of dependence between two objects, is preponderant to another. “Things may, without losing their individuality, exist in a relationship of coordination with other things, as is the case of the forks and spoons of a dining set, or in a relationship of subordination, as in the case of the keys to the doors of a house. In the second relationship, the subordinate thing is called an accessory and the thing to which it is subordinate is called principal” (Yiannopoulos, in Treatise, vol. 2, n° 34, pp. 58-59). Occ. Art. 433 C.C.L.C.Obs. 1º As a general rule, the accessory is subject to the same legal regime as the principal (accessorium sequitur principale). Characterization of the juridical nature of the accessory may, for example, be dictated by that of the principal (e.g. movables that are immobilized) or the accessory may be subject to the same legal rules as the principal (e.g. the obligation to deliver all the accessories of the property sold). 2º In the relationship between accessory and principal, the very existence of the accessory may depend upon the principal (e.g. a tree that periodically produces fruit), or the principal may be serviced by the accessory (e.g. the obligation to which a hypothec is attached). 3º From the Latin principalis (from princeps: first). See also accessory, doctrine of accession. Fr. principal¹.2. Syn. capital². “The guarantor may, on default in respect of interest, enforce his hypothec for the principal in the usual way by obtaining judgment and proceeding to execution [...]” (Three Rivers (City) v. Sun Trust Co., [1923] S.C.R. 496, p. 498, L.P. Duff, J.). Fr. capital²+, principal².

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