Exploring Quebec Civil Law, Common Law, and the future of legal technology.
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An analysis of the fundamental conditions of extra-contractual civil liability for personal acts in Quebec law: fault, damage, and causation under the Civil Code of Quebec.
A structured guide to the rights of creditors, sureties, and debtors before, during, and after the enforcement of suretyship obligations under the Civil Code of Quebec, including the modes of extinction specific to this...
A detailed guide to suretyship (cautionnement) in Quebec civil law, covering its nature, characteristics, classifications, conditions of formation, extent, and interpretation under the Civil Code of Quebec.
An introduction to the changing role of suretyship in Quebec civil law, from family guarantees to commercial and construction contexts, with a focus on creditor good faith and the reform of the surety's protections.
A structured guide to the formation, performance, and protective mechanisms governing consumer loans under Quebec's Consumer Protection Act, including formal requirements, the right to resolve, forfeiture of the benefit...
A detailed guide to the nature, classification, and legal regime governing loan contracts under the Civil Code of Quebec, covering loan for use, simple loan, and the money loan.
An introductory overview of the contract of loan in Quebec civil law, emphasizing its economic importance, the two basic patterns illustrated by the source note, and the role of consumer protection legislation in the...
A guide to the jurisdiction, procedure, and remedial powers of Quebec's Tribunal administratif du logement (T.A.L.), the specialized tribunal responsible for residential lease disputes and housing conservation.
A structured lesson on judicial and extrajudicial remedies available to lessors and lessees when lease obligations are breached under the Civil Code of Quebec, including specific performance, lease resiliation, rent...
An overview of the security mechanisms available to lessors and their creditors under the Civil Code of Quebec, including movable hypothecs, suretyship, letters of credit, and hypothecs on rental income.
A didactic overview of the special rules governing residential leases under the Civil Code of Quebec, including scope of application, mandatory provisions, tenant protections, rent control, the right to maintain...
A detailed guide to the rights and obligations of lessors and lessees under Quebec's general lease regime, covering delivery, peaceful enjoyment, repairs, sublease, assignment, and termination of leases under the Civil...
A structured guide to the contract of lease (louage) under the Civil Code of Quebec, including formation, characteristics, publication of rights, and the distinct regime of finance leasing (credit-bail).
An analysis of two specialized sale regimes under Quebec civil law: instalment sales (vente à tempérament) and sales of residential immovables (vente d'un immeuble à usage d'habitation), covering formation, effects, and...
A detailed guide to the formation, effects, and warranties governing contracts of sale under the Civil Code of Quebec, including the promise of sale, transfer of ownership and risks, delivery obligations, and the...
An introduction to the contract of sale under the Civil Code of Quebec and the scope of the Consumer Protection Act, covering essential elements, types of sale, and consumer-merchant qualification.
A structured guide to the rules governing restitution of performances under articles 1699 to 1707 of the Civil Code of Quebec, covering restitution in kind, by equivalence, ancillary indemnities, protected persons, and...
A structured lesson on the four modes by which obligations are extinguished without actual performance under Quebec civil law: compensation, confusion, release, and liberation of the debtor.
A guide to the mechanisms for transmitting and modifying obligations under the Civil Code of Quebec, including assignment of claims, subrogation, delegation of payment, and novation.
A structured guide to the modalities that alter obligations under the Civil Code of Quebec, covering conditions, terms, plurality of subjects (joint, indivisible, and solidary obligations), and plurality of objects...
A structured guide to the rules governing performance of obligations under the Civil Code of Quebec, covering payment, imputation, real offers and consignation, default, creditor remedies, and the protection of the...
A detailed lesson on the three quasi-contractual sources of obligations under the Civil Code of Quebec: management of the business of another, reception of a payment not due, and unjustified enrichment.
A detailed guide to the formation, classification, effects, and nullity of contracts under the Civil Code of Quebec, covering consent, defects of consent, and the protective regime for adhesion and consumer contracts.
A structured overview of the concept of obligations under Quebec civil law, covering their definition, characteristics, principal classifications, and the overarching duty of good faith that governs every stage of an...
A doctrinal roadmap to the law of obligations under the Civil Code of Quebec, explaining how contractual and non-contractual sources, the general regime, and the major nominate contracts in this series fit together.
How Quebec civil law governs the liability of physicians and hospitals, including the nature of the medical obligation, informed consent, professional duties, and the allocation of responsibility for the acts of others...
How Quebec civil law governs the professional liability of notaries, covering the nature of the notary-client relationship, the standard of care, principal duties, the subsidiarity question, and liability toward third...
How Quebec civil law governs the professional liability of lawyers toward their clients and third parties, covering duties of competence, advice, loyalty, professional secrecy, causation through loss of chance, and...
This chapter traces the evolution of civil liability for professionals in Quebec, from historical quasi-immunity to the modern obligation of means, the role of codes of ethics, and the influence of Roberge c. Bolduc on...
The directness and certainty requirements for compensable damage in Quebec civil law: indirect victims, loss of chance, third-party benefits, and post-incident releases.
Quebec's state compensation schemes cover workplace accidents, automobile accidents, criminal offences, and other situations. This lesson examines their interaction with the general civil liability regime under the...
An overview of the tripartite classification of damage (bodily, moral, and material injury) adopted by the Civil Code of Quebec and the Supreme Court's criterion of the nature of the initial violation for qualifying the...
Analysis of moratory damages under Quebec civil law: the 5% legal rate of interest (art. 1618 CCQ), the discretionary additional indemnity (art. 1619 CCQ), the starting point tied to default, and special cases.
The rules governing compensation of pecuniary and non-pecuniary losses when property is destroyed or damaged under Quebec civil law.
How Quebec civil law compensates for death: claims by heirs, recourses of indirect victims, loss of material support, funeral expenses, solatium doloris, and the shortening of life.
Rules governing the assessment and compensation of bodily injury in Quebec civil law: cost of care, loss of income, non-pecuniary losses, discounting, and tax implications.
An overview of professional liability in Quebec civil law: the standard of care, obligations of means and result, professional duties, and the role of codes of ethics across lawyers, notaries, and physicians.
How Quebec civil law compensates moral harm arising from injury to reputation, including the assessment of pecuniary and non-pecuniary losses, the absence of a damages cap, the factors modulating quantum, and the...
Defences, exemptions, and apportionment rules in Quebec extra-contractual civil liability: superior force, contributory fault of the victim, assumption of risk, self-defence, novus actus interveniens, and exclusion...
How Quebec civil law allocates responsibility when harm is caused by minors, employees, things, animals, and defective products under the Civil Code of Quebec.