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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TRUST n.
1.  Patrimony by appropriation created for the benefit of a person or for the fulfillment of a purpose authorized by law. “[...] the trust proceeds upon the idea that, as a matter of fundamental principle, the beneficial enjoyment of property can be separated from its management” (Brierley, in Droit québécois et droit français, 383, p. 385). Administration of the trust; constitution of the trust. Occ. Title preceding arts. 1260, 3107 C.C.Q.; title preceding art. 981a C.C.L.C.; arts. 981b, 981j C.L.C.C.; s. 3, An Act to facilitate the payment of support, R.S.Q. c. P-2.2.Obs. 1º Trusts are established by gratuitous or onerous contract, by will, by law or, under certain circumstances, by judgment (art. 1262 C.C.Q.). 2º Three types of trust are set forth in the Civil Code of Québec: the personal trust (art. 1267 C.C.Q.), the private trust (arts. 1268, 1269 C.C.Q.) and the social trust (art. 1270 C.C.Q.). 3º The law imposes no formal requirements upon the creation of trusts other than those applicable to the act that creates it (e.g. arts. 1263 and 1824 C.C.Q.). 4º A trust is created the moment the trustee accepts his or her office (art. 1264 C.C.Q.), insofar as this acceptance has the effect of divesting the settlor of his or her property and transferring it to the trust patrimony (art. 1265 C.C.Q.). 5º The Quebec trust is conceptually different from the common law trust, being based on the creation of a patrimony by appropriation rather than a division of proprietary titles. 6º Under the Civil Code of Lower Canada, the trust was understood as a mode of disposition which was viewed as conferring upon the trustee a sui generis right of ownership in the transferred property. 7º From the Middle English trust: trust, reliability; akin to the Old Norse traust: trust, help, confidence and to the Old English treowe: faithful, and treowian: to believe, trust. 8º The codal regime respecting trusts is set forth at articles 1260 to 1298 C.C.Q. Syn. trust patrimony. See also  administration of the property of others, beneficiary2, foundation, patrimony by appropriation, personal trust, power, private trust, settlor, social trust, trustee, trust patrimony. Fr. fiducie1+, patrimoine fiduciaire.2.  Juridical act by which a person, the settlor, transfers a part of his or her patrimony to another patrimony and appropriates the transferred property to a particular purpose.  Occ. Art.1263 C.C.Q.Syn. constitutive act of trust. See also  constitutive act, trust1, trust patrimony. Fr. acte de fiducie1, acte fiduciaire1, fiducie2+.3.  See in trust.  Fr. fidéicommis.
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