Quebec Civil Law Crash Course

The foundation of Quebec civil law: contract formation, performance, modalities, assignment, extinction, restitution, and named contracts such as sale, lease, loans, and suretyship.

1. 1.Obligations and Contracts: Series Overview
2. 2.Introduction to the Law of Obligations
3. 3.The Contract: Core Rules
4. 4.Other Sources of Obligations
5. 5.Performance of Obligations
6. 6.Modalities of Obligations
7. 7.Assignment and Transfer of Obligations
8. 8.Extinguishment of Obligations: Compensation, Confusion, Release, and Debtor Liberation
9. 9.Restitution of Performances
10. 10.Sale and Consumer Protection
11. 11.General Law of Sale
12. 12.Special Regimes in Sales Law: Instalment Sales and Residential Immovable Sales
13. 13.Leases and Finance Leasing
14. 14.General Rules for All Leases
15. 15.Residential Tenancy Rules
16. 16.Securities and Remedies Related to Leases
17. 17.Remedies for Non-Performance of Lease Obligations
18. 18.The Administrative Housing Tribunal
19. 19.Loan Contracts: An Introductory Overview
20. 20.Nature and Legal Regime of Loans
21. 21.Consumer Loan Rules Under Quebec's Consumer Protection Act
22. 22.Suretyship: Evolution, Creditor Abuse, and Reform
23. 23.General Concepts of Guarantee: Suretyship
24. 24.Effects and Extinction of Suretyship

Fault, damage, and causation; liability for the acts of others and for things; professional liability; and the interaction with state compensation schemes.

1. 1.General Conditions of Civil Liability for Personal Acts
2. 2.Liability for Acts or Faults of Others and for Things
3. 3.Exemption and Apportionment of Liability
4. 4.Civil Liability and State Compensation Schemes
5. 5.Liability of Professionals
6. 6.General Commentary on Professional Liability
7. 7.Liability of Lawyers
8. 8.Liability of Notaries
9. 9.Medical and Hospital Liability
10. 10.Introduction to Damage (Prejudice) in Quebec Civil Law
11. 11.Damage as a Condition of Liability
12. 12.Compensation for Harm to Property
13. 13.Compensation for Moral Harm
14. 14.Compensation for Bodily Injury
15. 15.Compensation for Death-Related Damages
16. 16.Interest and Additional Indemnity
17. 17.Prescription in Quebec Civil Law

Real-property and movable security under the Civil Code of Quebec: prior claims, conventional and legal hypothecs, ranking and publication, and the exercise of hypothecary rights.

These notes are in progress. They are part of the planned curriculum and will be published here as they are written.

The law of persons under the Civil Code of Quebec: enjoyment and exercise of civil rights, integrity of the person, name and domicile, civil status, capacity, and protective regimes.

These notes are in progress. They are part of the planned curriculum and will be published here as they are written.

Separation and divorce, family mediation, support obligations, family patrimony, matrimonial regimes, civil union, and the procedural side of conjugal disputes.

These notes are in progress. They are part of the planned curriculum and will be published here as they are written.

How civil claims move through the Quebec courts: first-instance proceedings, retraction of judgment, appeals, enforcement, and seizures before judgment.

These notes are in progress. They are part of the planned curriculum and will be published here as they are written.

Proof in Quebec civil matters: the sources and scope of the rules, burden of proof, writings and technological records, testimony, presumptions, and admissibility.

These notes are in progress. They are part of the planned curriculum and will be published here as they are written.