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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RENUNCIATION n.
1.  Act by which the holder of a right provokes its extinction insofar as he or she is concerned. “Tacit renunciation results from unequivocal facts which necessarily imply an intention by the creditor to cancel claims on the immovable. Further, the renunciation is strictly interpreted if there is any doubt as to its scope” (Gingras v. Gagnon, [1977] 1 S.C.R. 217, p. 222, J. Beetz, J.).  Occ. Arts. 1477, 2885 C.C.Q.; arts. 1755(2), 2185 C.C.L.C.Obs. 1º Renunciation is usually a unilateral act; it can also be bilateral, as when the consent of the other party is necessary, such as in a release of debt. 2º Acts of renunciation may apply to both real and personal rights, as well as to means of protection or defence against claims by third parties (e.g. exception of non- performance, acquisitive prescription). They may also apply to charges of a public or family nature (e.g. tutorship). 3º Specialized terms, such as abandonment and divestment, are used in designated circumstances. Syn. abdication, abdicative act, act of renunciation. See also  attributive act, constitutive act, declaratory act, renunciatory effect, translatory act. Fr. abdication, acte abdicatif+.2.  Act by which a person agrees not to exercise a right or to give up a legal claim. For example, the renunciation of an option to purchase.“[...] a gratuitous renunciation [of a succession] which is made by an heir in favor of one or more, but not all, of his co-heirs is not a valid renunciation, but is deemed an acceptance and donation of succession rights” (Benjamin, (1951-52) 26 Tul. L. Rev. 81, pp. 83-84).  Occ. Arts. 641, 1006, 1110, 1191, 1296, 2936 C.C.Q.; arts. 651, 2126 C.C.L.C.Obs. 1º Authors generally view renunciation as a unilateral juridical act, which may be express or tacit. It can be effected by gratuitous or onerous title. Renunciation may, for example, bear on a real right (e.g. abandonment of a servitude), a right of succession (e.g. renunciation of a succession), a right of action (e.g. discontinuance of judicial proceedings) or a benefit granted by law (e.g. renunciation of prescription). 2º Renunciation is, in most cases, an abdicative act, i.e. an act by which the holder of a right brings about its extinction. In this respect, the rights attached to a person are not susceptible of renunciation (e.g. personality rights). However, a partial renunciation of a right attached to person remains possible, as well as the renunciation to the right of action resulting from the violation of such a right. 3º Certain forms of renunciation are submitted to the formalities of publication (art. 2938 C.C.Q.). Syn. abandonment2, waiver. See also  abandonment1, renunciation1. Fr. renonciation.
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