Quebec Civil Code
Quebec Civil Code (Canada) the code of law applying in civil mat- ters in the Canadian province of Quebec. The British conquest of
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Nouvelle-France in 1760 marked the beginning of the difficulty of running two different legal systems together. Even immediately after conquest, it was accepted in the capitulation of Montreal that the French civil law should apply until altered fully in compliance with the accepted view in the English system in relation to its colonies. The French law was subordinated by the proclamation of 1763, but the Quebec Act 1774 reinstated French civil law (but maintained English criminal law). The Civil Code of Lower Canada became law in 1866 and was closely modelled on the NAPOLEONIC CODE.
- rape
- ratification
- ratio decidendi
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- real evidence
- realised profits and losses
- realism
- real property
- real right
- reasonable doubt
- reasonable man
- rebus sic stantibus
- rebut
- rebuttable presumption
- rebuttal evidence
- recaption
- receipt
- receiver
- reckless driving
- reckless endangerment
- recognisance
- recommendation
- recompense
- reconvention
- recovery of money