by French-heritage civil law. Public law, criminal law and federal law operate according to Canadian common law. Quebec law is under the shared responsibility...

Canada, law in Quebec is mixed: private law is exercised under a civil-law system, while public law is exercised under a common-law system. Quebec's official...

private law matters. As a result, most Canadian law schools that offer schooling in civil law are based in Quebec. Generally, entry into law programs...

follows English law on defamation issues (except in the province of Quebec where private law is derived from French civil law). At common law, defamation...

The Bar of Quebec (French: Barreau du Québec) is the regulatory body for the practice of advocates in the Canadian province of Quebec and one of two legal...

Code of Quebec governs a number of areas affecting relations between individuals under Quebec law. It deals with the main rules governing the law of persons...

to influence from common law, but under these systems personal servitudes are limited to easements in gross. Under Quebec law, a servitude is a real right...

federal law. However, Murray Hall challenged Quebec's law, and on September 3, 2019, Justice Manon Lavoie deemed that sections 5 and 10 of Quebec's Cannabis...

Bill 99 (R.S.Q., c. E-20.2) is a Quebec law concerning the consequences of any future referendum on independence; it was enacted in 2000 in response to...

Parti de la loi naturelle du Québec (PLNQ, in English: Natural Law Party of Quebec) was the Quebec branch of the Natural Law Party of Canada. The party...

maintained for matters of public law, including administrative appeals, court procedure, and criminal prosecution. In Quebec, English-speaking immigrants...

Common Law. At McGill University, the bachelor's degree in Quebec Civil Law is called the BCL, to distinguish it from the first degree in Common Law (i.e...

systems in which civil law is the background law but has its public law heavily influenced by common law: Puerto Rico, Philippines, Quebec and Louisiana the...

The Quebec sovereignty movement (French: mouvement souverainiste du Québec) is a political movement whose objective is to achieve the independence of Quebec...

referred to as Bill 21 or Law 21, is a statute passed by the National Assembly of Quebec in 2019 which asserts that Quebec is a lay state (secular state)...

of the Quebec Charter. The plaintiff is required to show that she suffered damage through the appropriation of her personality rights. Quebec law may allow...

category name because of common English usage, Quebec does not contain any cities under the current law; this list thus includes all villes, regardless...

of Quebec is Quebec City, where the Lieutenant Governor, Premier, the legislature, and cabinet reside. The legislature — the Parliament of Quebec — is...

contract law is composed of two parallel systems: a common law framework outside Québec and a civil law framework within Québec. Outside Québec, Canadian...

for lawyers in common law countries. In most common law countries (with the exceptions of all Canadian provinces except Quebec, and the United States)...

Consumer Protection Act (French: Loi sur la protection du consommateur) is a Quebec law which gives protections to consumers in dealing with merchants and businesses...

The Quebec Environmental Law Centre (QELC; French: Le Centre québécois du droit de l'environnement, CQDE) is a non-profit environmental organization whose...

of Quebec, [1998] 2 SCR 217 is a landmark judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the legality, under both Canadian and international law, of...

The flag of Quebec, called the Fleurdelisé (French for 'lily-flowered'), represents the Canadian province of Quebec. It consists of a white cross on a...

ʁiʃ(ə)ljø]) is a city in eastern Montérégie in the Canadian province of Quebec, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Montreal, located roughly halfway...

Québec ("Law to promote the French language in Quebec"), was a language law passed in 1969 in Quebec, Canada. In the 1960s, the government of Quebec commissioned...

The Province of Quebec (French: Province de Québec) was a colony in British North America which comprised the former French colony of Canada. It was established...

Civil unions in Quebec are available in Quebec to both opposite-sex and same-sex couples, which attempts to create the same rights for the partners as...

The municipal history of Quebec started in 1796 with the creation of administrations for Montréal and Quebec City, but it really developed immediately...

Quebec City (/kwɪˈbɛk/ or /kəˈbɛk/; French: Ville de Québec), officially known as Québec (French pronunciation: [kebɛk]), is the capital city of the Canadian...