Quebec Civil Law

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 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 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...

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 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 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 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.

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...