scholarly journals Alive and Kicking — The Story of Lesion and the Civil Code of Québec

2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 445-465
Author(s):  
Kerianne Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Lower Canada ◽  
Civil Code Of Quebec ◽  
The 1950S

Québec civil law had excluded lesion between majors entirely from the Civil Code of Lower Canada. The changing social climate of the 1950s and 1960s and the accompanying popularity of the philosophy of contractual justice set the stage for the Civil Code Revision Office and a dramatic reversal of the place of lesion in Québec law. But this expectation came to nothing as lesion between majors was, for all intents and purposes, excluded from the Civil Code of Québec. In recent years, however, the judiciary has used other means, namely abusive clauses and economic error, to reach the same end to a large extent. The result is desirable, but the legitimacy of this initiative remains controversial.

scholarly journals Changing Codes and Changing Constitutions

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 629-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoi Kong
Keyword(s):  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Division Of Powers ◽  
Civil Union ◽  
Civil Code Of Quebec ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Area Of Study

In this article, the author addresses a neglected area of study, namely codal amendment in Canada. The author argues that the theoretical justi-fcations for the Civil Code of Québec and its distinctive design features raise concerns about how the Code is currently amended. In response to these concerns, the author draws on the rich literature concerning law reform in Canada to propose a reform institute that is charged with overseeing the process of codal amendment. Moreover, the author contends that when Canadian courts and Parliament respond to and the Quebec legislature effects changes to codal text they should be closely attentive to the purposes underlying the constitutional division of powers. To illustrate this last contention, the author critiques the Federal Law — Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 1 and recent legislative and judicial developments respecting marriage and the civil union.

scholarly journals Le régime primaire dans le nouveau Code civil du Québec : quelques remarques critiques

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-336
Author(s):  
Ernest Caparros
Keyword(s):  
Civil Code ◽  
Household Work ◽  
Lower Canada ◽  
Judicial Intervention ◽  
The Family ◽  
Civil Code Of Quebec ◽  
Mutual Obligation ◽  
Code Civil

The author points out, in the introduction, that the reform introduced by Bill 89 is limited to one of the nine Books that the new Civil Code of Québec will have, and that even in this Second Book only 151 articles are in force. He then studies the contribution of the spouses to the needs of the family as regulated by the new provisions: the mutual obligation to contribute is now imposed by law. The autor regrets that the new Code restricts the concept of contribution in the form of work to household work. He underlines that the solidarité aimed at by the new provisions may be jeopardized by the continued application of rules from the present Civil Code of Lower Canada. As for the protection of the family residence, the author indicates how this protection is in some cases very limited and questions the efficiency of the formalities required. He also regrets that the new provisions concerning the fate of the family residence at the end of the cohabitation have not been put in force yet. Finally, he criticizes the provisions concerning judicial intervention in family matters.

scholarly journals Louisiana and Quebec Terminology as a Tool in Polish-English Legal Translation

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Przemysław Kusik
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Legal Translation ◽  
Conceptual Background ◽  
Civil Code Of Quebec ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Unique Source ◽  
Civil Codes

Abstract While in the majority of English-speaking territories the dominant legal tradition is common law, in Louisiana and Quebec the native language is English and the legal system stems from continental civil law. Both the Louisiana Civil Code and the Civil Code of Quebec take root in the European codification movement, following Code Napoleon. Bearing in mind the link between law and language, these jurisdictions provide a unique source of English civil law terminology with well-founded conceptual background. The civil codes of Louisiana and Quebec seem to be potentially useful for the translation of Polish private law into English. Yet there are some reservations which should be considered. By comparing two different translations of Article 292 of the Polish Civil Code, this paper is intended to contribute to the debate on the use of Quebec and Louisiana terminology in Polish-English legal translation.

scholarly journals Specific Performance in the Civil Law: Mediating Between Inconsistent Principles Inherited from a Roman-Canonical Tradition via the French Astreinte and the Québec Injunction

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-554
Author(s):  
George Vlavianos
Keyword(s):  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Court Order ◽  
Lower Canada ◽  
Specific Performance ◽  
Contractual Obligations ◽  
Substantive Law ◽  
Code Civil

Traditionally, inexecution of a contractual obligation in the civil law gives rise to an award in damages. This principle stems from Roman law of the classical period, which held to the maxim Nemo praecise cogi potest ad factum. In the post-classical period, however, the influence of ecclesiastical courts and the Christian notion of fidei laesio imposed itself on the classical pre-eminence of damages. Consequently, contractual obligations were often specifically enforced by secular courts based on the pacta sunt servanda doctrine of the canon law. Yet damages and specific performance, it is argued, are from the outset conceptually irreconcilable remedies. The full import of the nemo praecise principle prohibits all acts compelling the debtor to perform, whether such compulsion be physical or one of conscience. Pacta sunt servanda, on the other hand, maintains that that which has been promised should be performed, by force if necessary. In France, the mechanism of astreinte — a comminatory fine imposed on the debtor upon his failure to comply with a court order — is used to specifically enforce contractual obligations. This is done despite the fact that execution in kind is not expressly sanctioned by the Code civil. In Québec, courts have been slow to acknowledge the suitability of specific performance in the context of contractual obligations. The source of such hesitation is codally rooted, as the Civil Code of Lower Canada, in terms similar to the French Code civil, enunciates the supremacy of damages at article 1065. But this situation will change with the arrival of the new Civil Code of Québec. With this reorientation of the substantive law, Québec courts will be procedurally better equipped to enforce specific performance than their French counterparts. In essence, via the injunction, a court may physically compel a recalcitrant debtor. Despite its common law origins, the author contends that the injunction is not incompatible with the law of obligations in Québec. Any perceived incompatibility in the realm of contract law arises from the initial irreconcilability of damages and specific performance.

scholarly journals Testing the Origins of the Family Patrimony in Everyday Law

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 795-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Kasirer
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Married Life ◽  
The Family ◽  
Civil Code Of Quebec ◽  
A Share

This essay seeks to reevaluate the origins of the family patrimony by challenging the idea that the provisions introduced into the Civil Code of Québec in 1989 amounted to new law. The family patrimony is not simply a statutory trust borrowed maladroitly from Ontario, nor does it reflect a moral postulate that, prior to 1989, had no legal status. It may be argued, in advance of sociological study, that the family patrimony should be understood as reflecting customary norms that were already present in the Quebec legal order at the time of its enactment. Where wealth is accumulated by the spouses during the period that marriage is lived as a joint economic endeavour, rules of everyday law may require the sharing of certain property without regard to which of them has formal title thereto. These customary norms, obscured doctrinally by a modern disinclination among jurists to look beyond state-made law and its adjuncts in the regulation of married life, are potent sources of family property law. Once the manner in which everyday law complements the formal law of matrimonial property is made plain, it becomes apparent that the claim to a share of the family patrimony is not, in fact, a break with tradition in Quebec's Civil law of family property.

scholarly journals La Convention des Nations Unies sur les contrats de vente internationale de marchandises : Étude comparative des dispositions de la Convention et des règles de droit québécois en la matière

2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 919-1008
Author(s):  
Claude Samson
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
International Business ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Etude Comparative ◽  
Étude Comparative ◽  
Business Transactions ◽  
Civil Code Of Quebec ◽  
Uniform Law ◽  
International Sale Of Goods

On April 11, 1980, the U.N. Diplomatic Conference held in Vienna approved the Convention on contracts for the International Sale of Goods. This paper deals with the most interesting aspects of the Convention, comparing them with the rules of the Civil Code and the Draft Civil Code of Quebec on this matter. The provisions of this international uniform law are quite close to the rules and remedies existing in civil law juridictions. The major differences between the Convention and the Quebec Law are more technical than substantial. The differences between the uniform law and the national law can also be explained by particular circumstances of international trade which require more celerity and security in the field of international business transactions.

Kajian Yuridis Pengesampingan Pasal 1266 dan Pasal 1267 Kitab Undang -Undang Hukum Perdata sebagai Syarat Batal dalam Perjanjian Kredit Perbankan

2017 ◽  
pp. 65-89
Author(s):  
Rocky Marciano Ambar ◽  
Budi Santoso ◽  
Hanif Nur Widhiyanti
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Bank Credit ◽  
Dominant Position ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
Credit Agreement ◽  
The Right

Banks in credit agreements use more standard agreements, standard contracts in 2 (two) things, (1) There is an unbalanced position between banks and debtors, banks that have a more dominant position and debtors. (2) There is an understanding of the principle of freedom of contracting and without limits. The Bank has the freedom to seek the form and content of the agreement. Code of Ethics in agreement. The provisions of the Civil Code provide types of compensation for parties. Based on the background, then for problems the problem is written (1). Does the inclusion of Article 1266 and Article 1267 of the Civil Code on the banking system have collected the principles of balance and justice. (2) What are the legal implications of the exclusion clause. The research method is normative juridical research. The result of this research is the neglect of civil law and the principle of compensation is the principle of balance. The basic principle according to Rawls is that it is unfair or more people. in the sense of "freedom of results", in other words. is the nature of the debtor in a bank credit agreement. For the legal implications of the clause that excludes Article 1266 and Article 1267 of the Civil Code concerning the right of the debtor to the debtor. Legal efforts in finding and resolving problems that cannot be made by a decision due to the imbalance of the parties in the agreement. For people who make changes, no party will be harmed.

SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT IN THE SYSTEM OF PRIVATE LAW

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-107
Author(s):  
M.D. TYAZHBIN
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article is dedicated to the category of subordination agreements. Based on the concept of conflict of rights in personam, the author makes an attempt to integrate this category into the system of private law, to determine the legal nature of subordination, and from these positions to assess the effectiveness of Art. 309.1 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, implemented in the course of the civil law reform.

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