Appendix 2

• Author: Denis Le May
• Profession: Conseiller a la documentation Bibliotheque de l'Université Laval
• Pages: 190-191

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The Civil Code of Québec in Chart Form

APPENDIX 2: Changes in Terminology from the New Civil Code to the Former Civil Code

New Code Former Code

Absolute presumption Presumption juris et de jure

Account held in trust [acte de fideicommis] Trust account

Act of death Act of burial

Capacity of legal persons Rights and general powers of a corporation

Certified statement of the registrar Certificate of the registrar

Clerk Prothonotary

Confinement of a mentally ill person Close treatment

Contractual partnership within the meaning of the

Civil Code of Québec Commercial parnership or Civil partnership

Contract of employment Lease and hire of personal services

De facto incapacity Physical or mental disability

Emphyteusis Emphyteutic lease

Fault in the context of extra-contractual civil liability Offences and quasi-offences

Hypothecary suretyship Hypothecary security

Inhability to act Incapacity to act

Juridical personality Civil personality

Land register Index of immovables (or to immovables)

Legal person established for a private interest or in

the public interest Private or public corporation

Legal person within the meaning of the Civil Code

of Québec

Corporation within the meaning of the Civil Code of

Lower Canada

Legatee by particular title Legatee (in the expression: heirs and legatees)

Liquidator of the succession Testamentary executor