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.

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, 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.

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, 2^nd ed. (2016).

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SUBJECT OF RIGHTS nom.ph.

1. Being or entity considered according to the juridical function or role it plays in a legal relationship. Obs. 1º The notion of subject of rights used in this sense translates the idea of a party to a legal relationship assuming the rights and obligations that arise from such a relationship. 2º Some scholars liken the notion of subject of rights to that of person, because all persons are subjects of rights. Traditionally, it was considered that only persons, whether natural or legal, could be subjects of rights. 3º Certain patrimonies by appropriation are formally constituted as legal persons and, as such, they are endowed with juridical personality (e.g. foundations (art. 1257 C.C.Q.)). Those that are not so constituted do not have juridical personality as traditionally conceived. Some scholars see these patrimonies by appropriation, though non- personalized, as nevertheless having the status of subjects of rights. 4º The notions of subject of rights and object of rights are often contrasted in the same way as are the categories of persons and things. 5º It is generally considered that the natural person, as subject of rights, cannot itself be the object of rights. 6º In the juridical relationship of an obligation, there are two or more subjects of rights: the active subject (creditor) and the passive subject (debtor). 7º The expression subject of law, as equivalent to subject of rights, is also encountered. It has developed as an equivalent for the French sujet de droit and is thought by some to be a Gallicism. Such use may stem from the use in French of the same word droit to designate both law in the general sense and a right. See also object of rights, patrimony by appropriation. Fr. sujet de droit².2. Being or entity considered as having the capacity to be a titulary of rights. Obs. 1º Although the existence of a juridical relationship is implied in this notion of subject of rights, the notion emphasizes the anchoring of the rights in their titulary, rather than the role of the latter in the juridical relationship. 2º The expression subject of law, as equivalent to subject of rights, is also encountered. It has developed as an equivalent for the French sujet de droit and is thought by some to be a Gallicism. Such use may stem from the use in French of the same word droit to designate both law in the general sense and right. See also object of rights, titulary. Fr. sujet de droit³.

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