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    The Civil Code of Lower Canada (French: Code civil du Bas-Canada) was a law that was in effect in Lower Canada on 1 August 1866 and remained in effect...
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    replaced the Civil Code of Lower Canada (French: Code civil du Bas-Canada) enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in 1865, which...
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    A civil code is a codification of private law relating to property, family, and obligations. A jurisdiction that has a civil code generally also has a...
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    Quebec law (redirect from Quebec civil law)
    Civil Code of Quebec was enacted in 1991, and came into force in 1994. This Code repealed both the Civil Code of Lower Canada and the Civil Code of Quebec...
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    Napoleonic Code (French: Code Napoléon), officially the Civil Code of the French (French: Code civil des Français; simply referred to as Code civil), is the...
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    the Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, and abolished the seigneurial system in Canada East. In 1849, King's College was renamed the University of Toronto...
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  • Lower Canada, which became problematic when the Civil Code of Lower Canada was replaced by the Civil Code of Quebec. While the Parliament of Canada has...
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    Quebec (redirect from Quebec, Canada)
    In 1866, the Civil Code of Lower Canada was adopted. In 1864, negotiations began for Canadian Confederation between the Province of Canada, New Brunswick...
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  • 1937, there was no right of appeal from a divorce proceeding in British Columbia. In Quebec, the Civil Code of Lower Canada declared that "Marriage can...
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    George-Étienne Cartier (category Lower Canada Rebellion people)
    Lower Canada Rebellion. He officially entered politics in 1848. During his long career, he instituted the creation of the Civil Code of Lower Canada,...
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    of Québec's annexation into the British Empire, it was overhauled and codified first in the Civil Code of Lower Canada and later in the current Civil...
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    Contract (redirect from Law of contracts)
    the Civil Code of Lower Canada or the Egyptian Civil Code), contracts can be divided into their Negotium [fr] (the substantive content of the contract)...
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  • law. With the passage of the Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, Quebec's civil law became entirely statute-based and used the civil law system for matters...
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    work of Robert Joseph Pothier, Domat's work is regarded as the second most important influence on the Civil Code of Lower Canada. Lois civiles dans leur...
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    legitimate source of civil law in any French colony. In Quebec, however, it was not replaced until the Civil Code of Lower Canada entered into force...
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  • married to him". In the lead-up to the codification of the 1866 Civil Code of Lower Canada, Member of Parliament O'Farrell noted the inconsistency that...
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    equally to Upper and Lower Canada, which became problematic when the Civil Code of Lower Canada was replaced by the Civil Code of Quebec. Ex parte O'Neill...
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    Charles Dewey Day (category Members of the Special Council of Lower Canada)
    of the civil laws of Lower Canada, which produced the Civil Code of Lower Canada, enacted in 1866. Day wrote all of the provisions of the Civil Code relating...
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    appeal arose before the abolition of such appeals in 1949. Although arising in civil law under the Civil Code of Lower Canada, it has been influential in similar...
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    legislature, to amend a code. While the concept of codification dates back to the Code of Hammurabi in Babylon ca. 1790 BC, civil law systems derive from...
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  • Tort (redirect from Civil tort)
    Canadian province of Québec derives from the pre-Napoleonic French law then in force, but was eventually codified in the Civil Code of Lower Canada and...
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    in the Civil Code of Lower Canada and later the present Code Civil du Québec (CCQ). The CCQ provides for broad and generally open-ended "civil liability"...
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    Custom of Paris became the only law of the land in New France. In 1866 the Civil Code of Lower Canada was adopted in Lower Canada. The majority of the Code's...
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  • Lumber Company, former US railroad Civil Code of Lower Canada, 1866 legal document Children's Care and Learning Center of JCCMI Christian Academy, Daguan...
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  • Christian College Liverpool Community College London College of Communication Lower Canada College Lower Columbia College Language Computer Corporation Littleton...
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  • simplified in the form of the floating lien. When the Quebec Civil Code came into force in 1994 and superseded the Civil Code of Lower Canada, it abolished the...
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    Moving Day (Quebec) (category Culture of Quebec)
    May 1 and end on April 30. In law, this date was set in the Civil Code of Lower Canada of 1866. May 1 thus became "Moving Day", the day during which renters...
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    called Upper Canada and Lower Canada. These two colonies were collectively named the Canadas until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841....
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    the Civil Code of Lower Canada was drafted to modernize and codify the legal system in place for Lower Canada, creating a coherent compilation of the...
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    implemented. In 1866, the Civil Code of Lower Canada was adopted. Then, the long period of political impasse that was the Province of Canada came to a close as...
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