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Réflexions Sur La Codification Du Droit Privé, Paul-A. Crepeau
Réflexions Sur La Codification Du Droit Privé, Paul-A. Crepeau
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Within the framework of a broader research into the sources of the civil law of obligations, the author starts, here, from the historical fact that, on the one hand, the private law of Québec constitutes, since 1866, and contrary to the common law, an essentially legislated system, in the form of a Civil Code enacted in the French civilian tradition, and that, on the other hand, that form was maintained in the 1994 new Civil Code of Quebec. In reflecting on the method of codification, on the basis of various definitions of the term code, the author presents and analyzes …