En procédure civile, la connaissance des actes du procès par les parties est essentielle ; des garanties importantes y sont attachées, à commencer par le respect du principe du contradictoire. Une difficulté se pose, toutefois : il est malaisé de déterminer si une partie a eu connaissance de l’acte qui lui a été communiqué. Toute la question est alors de savoir comment le droit s’accommode de cette difficulté. À cette fin, deux modèles contraires peuvent être dégagés. Dans le premier, formaliste, il est fait le choix de favoriser la connaissance des actes du procès par les parties en amont, pour pouvoir se désintéresser de leur connaissance effective en aval, tous les moyens ayant été mis en oeuvre pour y parvenir. Dans le second, réaliste, on se désintéresse de la façon dont les actes du procès sont portés à la connaissance des parties, mais, par la suite, on prête beaucoup d’intérêt à la connaissance que les parties en ont réellement eue. L’étude révèle que le droit du procès civil reposait initialement sur un modèle à dominante formaliste, mais que ce modèle a évolué, particulièrement au cours des dix dernières années. Sous l’influence des soucis contemporains de rationalisation des coûts de la justice et de protection accrue des droits fondamentaux des parties, le formalisme du droit du procès civil s’est tempéré. Faudrait-il qu’il le soit davantage ? Ce travail ne plaide ni pour la subversion du modèle classique, ni pour son rétablissement. Plutôt, c’est une évolution nuancée du droit qui est suggérée, proposant d’exalter le formalisme lorsque la sécurité juridique l’exige, sans renoncer à tirer profit de règles l’atténuant quand cela s’impose. / In civil law procedures, the parties’ knowledge of the acts of the trial is essential; it guarantees that certain principles, such as the adversarial principle, will be respected. However, a difficulty arises: it is hard to determine whether a party has in fact become aware of the act which was communicated to him. The question is to determine whether the law can accept such a difficulty. To this end, two divergent models can be provided. In the formalistic one, the choice is made to favor the knowledge of the acts of the trial beforehand, in order to be able to become disinterested in their actual knowledge afterwards, all the means having been implemented to carry this out. In the realistic one, the way in which the acts of the trial are brought to the parties' attention is neglected, but thereafter, there is a resurgent focus on the knowledge the parties have genuinely had. The study reveals that the law of civil trial was initially based on a predominantly formalistic model, but this model has evolved, especially during the last decade. Under the influence of contemporary concerns in order to rationalize justice costs and increase the protection of the parties' fundamental rights, the formalism of civil lawsuit has been tempered. Should it be even more moderate? This work neither pleads for the subversion of the classical model nor for its reinstatement. Instead, it is a nuanced evolution of the law which is suggested. It suggests to promote formalism when legal certainty requires it, without sacrificing the benefit of lightening the rules when it is necessary.

Cette étude est consacrée au droit privé fédéral et à l'interaction entre la législation fédérale et le droit privé des provinces. Elle porte plus précisément sur le rôle des tribunaux dans le cadre de cette interaction. Elle a pour objectif de vérifier comment les juges procèdent à l'unification du droit privé fédéral en évitant de recourir formellement au droit provincial à titre supplétif. Dans un premier temps, elle établit le cadre juridique gouvernant l'interprétation du droit privé fédéral, de même que l'exercice du pouvoir judiciaire dans ce contexte. Dans un deuxième temps, elle analyse à travers un ensemble de jugements les procédés employés par les juges pour réaliser l'unification du droit privé fédéral. Elle conclut que ces procédés peuvent effectivement permettre de réaliser, au plan pratique, une telle unification. Cependant, ces interventions judiciaires sont ponctuelles et sont limitées à certains aspects de la conception ou de l'application des normes de droit privé. Dans les cas plus problématiques, elles peuvent avoir pour effet soit de nier le vide normatif rendant nécessaire le recours aux sources supplétives provinciales, soit de nier la pluralité formelle de ces sources dans le contexte fédéral. / This study is devoted to federal private law and the interaction between federal legislation and provincial private law. In particular, it is devoted to the role of the courts in such interaction. Hs objective is to assess how judges proceed with the unification of federal private law by avoiding formal reference to provincial law to supplement federal legislation. Firstly, the study considers the legal framework governing the interpretation of federal private law, as well as the exercise of judicial power in this context. Secondly, the study reviews means employed by judges, through a series of judgments, to proceed with the unification of federal private law. The study concludes that unification can effectively be achieved through such means. However, these judicial interventions are limited to sorne aspects of the elaboration and application ofprivate norms. In more complex cases, the effect of these interventions may be to disregard normative gaps that make necessary to supplement federal legislation with sources of provincial law, or to deny the plurality of these sources in the federal context.

Alienation of inheritance - Abstract This diploma thesis deals as first only with issues of alienation of inheritance under § 1714 - 1720 of Civil Code. The diploma is about reintroduced institute standing in the boundary of obligational and inheritance law, which is related to aleatory contracts such as insurance, bet, game and lottery, and which was known by the law of First republic, and which roots are dated to the old Rome age, but which is by the present professional publick almost undiscovered. The objective of this diploma thesis was describe to professional and laical publick rules, principles of workings of this law institute. The diploma thesis in great details analyses present legislation and pays attention to all variants of aplication of this law institute in praxis. The diploma thesis further compares present legislation with her precursor, which was originated to the beginning of the 19th century together with Austrian ABGB, and as well describes judicature of Supreme Court based on this theme. Author of this diploma submits on hypothetical scenarios possible variations of use of this law institute and all of its variable verzions consisting primarly on aleatory or not aleatory of concluded contratc, further finds weak points of present legislation and proposes its novelization to level up...

This paper aims to examine how the legal status of animals as property affect them and their owners in the context of domestic abuse, and to answer the question of whether it would be appropriate to change this. Several methods are used, most notably the legal dogmatic, legal analytic, and socio-legal. A feminist perspective is also applied. Animals are classified as objects in the Swedish legal system. According to the courts, however, they are not an object like any other. Despite their legal status, they are entitled to certain rights. Through research on what is called the link, it has been proven that animals play a very important role in domestic abuse relationships. They are effectively weaponized against the woman, and they are also often themselves abused, something that is not always understood considering the animals’ status as property. Because of recent court judgements and other societal tendencies, it can however be discussed if this is still the case, or if the order is slowly shifting. The paper finds that it cannot be claimed that animals by the legal order are viewed as more than objects in cases of domestic abuse. It can however be claimed that court judgements, public projects and recent changes on the animal rights area show inclinations of the Swedish legal system increasingly acknowledging animals within the domestic abuse context, however principally to the extent the abused woman views the animal as meaningful to her. Further findings include that it is not expedient to broaden the right of appeal in animal rights cases for the sake of the domestically abused animal, until they are considered more than property. It is furthermore not expedient to consider all or certain types of animals as more than property in the context of domestic abuse, as it would not outweigh the opposing interests. The findings lead to the conclusion that animals in situations of domestic abuse are best protected within Swedish law by strengthening animal welfare, by recognizing abuse against animals as a form psychological violence against women, and by establishing national measures on how the link problematic is to be addressed and redressed.

Coutelle, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas / En 1763, la Proclamation Royale crée quatre nouveaux gouvernements parmi les territoires qu’acquiert la Grande-Bretagne : la Province de Québec, la Floride Orientale, la Floride Occidentale et Grenade. La Proclamation prévoit que le droit anglais et les institutions britanniques y soient transférés. Le droit de conquête, encadré par la doctrine européenne et jusnaturaliste, garantit aux peuples conquis certains droits. De plus, les capitulations acceptées par les Britanniques et leur attitude durant le régime militaire laissent présager d’une certaine continuité juridique. Le transfert juridique et la création d’institutions britanniques varient beaucoup d’une colonie à l’autre, cela tient en grande partie à des contextes locaux très différents, qui conduisent à une application non-uniforme de la Proclamation Royale. L’intégration des populations conquises à la vie publique est facilitée par la conservation de tout ou partie de leur anciens droit et institutions, à condition que l’accès aux fonctions publiques soit permis aux Catholiques. Cette dynamique d’intégration se met en place au Québec, dès les premières années du règne britannique ; cependant, elle est très vite abandonnée en Floride, et finit par échouer brutalement à Grenade. En outre, la création d’assemblées représentatives, tel que prévu par la Proclamation Royale est difficile. Elle suscite des antagonismes entre les « vrais » sujets Britanniques et les peuples conquis, qui sont de « nouveaux » sujets, essentiellement Catholiques. Ces derniers ne peuvent, selon les lois de la Grande-Bretagne siéger dans ces assemblées. Cette période de transfert (1760-1783) interroge tous les champs juridiques, elle conduit à l’avènement d’un régime mixte, sui generis au Québec, et des régimes de plein transfert dans les trois autres colonies. Cette thèse concentre l’analyse sur les enjeux juridiques ; tout en faisant appel à d’autres perspectives, comme celles de la démographie, de l’économie, de la religion, et de la sociologie. Elle démontre comment se forment des systèmes juridiques mixtes à partir de deux systèmes qui se succèdent, ou bien comment le nouveau droit remplace totalement l’ancien. Dans le cas d’un remplacement total du droit, les Français se trouvent exclus du nouveau régime, et cela vaut plus largement pour les peuples conquis et colonisés mentionnés dans cette thèse, qu’ils soient Euro-américains ou Autochtones. / In 1763, the Royal Proclamation created four new governments among the territories acquired by Great Britain: the Province of Quebec, Eastern Florida, Western Florida and Grenada. The Proclamation stated that English law and British institutions would be transferred there. Yet, according to the law of conquest, framed by European and natural law doctrine, conquered peoples would be in some regards protected. Moreover, the capitulations accepted by the British and their attitude during the military regime foreshadowed a certain legal continuity. The legal transfer and the creation of British institutions varied greatly between these governments, due to very different local contexts, which lead to a non-uniform enforcement of the Royal Proclamation. The integration of the conquered populations into public life was made easier by the preservation of all or part of their ancient law and institutions, as long as Catholics were allowed to be involved in the institutions and public functions. This dynamic was set up in Quebec in the early years of British reign; however, it was soon abandoned in Florida, and ended up failing in Grenada. In addition, the creation of representative assemblies, as planned by the Royal Proclamation was difficult, it gave rise to conflicts between the "real" British subjects and the conquered peoples, who were called "new" subjects (mainly Catholics). According to the laws of Great Britain, the latter could not sit in those assemblies. This period of transfer (1760-1783) questioned all legal fields and led to the advent of a mixed, sui generis regime in Quebec and to a full transfer in the other three colonies. This thesis focuses on legal issues, while using other perspectives (such as demography, economics, religion, and sociology) if needed. It demonstrates how mixed legal systems were formed from two successive systems, or how the new law completely replaced the old one. Finally, the integration of the conquered peoples was tied with the preservation of their former legal system. In the event of a full change of law, the French would be excluded from the new regime and this would apply more widely to all the conquered and colonised peoples mentioned in this thesis, whether Euro-Americans or Native Americans.

This study examines the role of customary courts in the delivery of justice in South Sudan. In doing so, it analyses the legal background, the hierarchy and composition of the customary courts. The considerations behind the constitutional recognition of the customary law courts in the current constitutional dispensation and the jurisdiction of customary courts are limited to customary matters and only criminal cases with a customary interface. It is noted that the customary Judges do not only exercise judicial functions but also play executive and legislative functions which contravene the constitutional principle of separation of powers. Reconciliation and compensation are noted as the major principles applied in the customary law courts. The major concern is that most practices in the customary law courts violate fundamental human rights. / Public, Constitutional and International Law / LLM

本文目的乃是欲從大理院之民事判決例中，嘗試去探究大理院的民事法源，去了解大理院所建立的民事法規範的淵源到底是從何而來？其審判究竟根據什麼樣的法源？大理院對這些法源的態度為何？法源衝突時，規範的效力問題又該如何解決？根據本文考察，大理院之民事法源，在成文法方面，除了約法之外，主要依照《大清現行律》民事有效部分作為其審判依據，在運用層面上導入了歐陸法學概念用來解釋《大清現行律》，促使中西法律文化的融合。此外，前清其它有效法律與民國時期民事特別立法也都被大理院以之為法源。關於條約，大理院則認為其具有法源地位，得直接適用而不需再經由國內立法程序。至於大清民律草案，在民國初年並非有效的成文法律，大理院將其定性為「條理」而加以適用，但是在適用上的判語則相當岐異，為其弊端。同時，大理院時期已經能運用外國立法例與一般法律原則來加強判決理由與調整當事人利益的分配。當然，大理院處於新舊交融的時代，一些傳統義理道德的觀念仍在大理院判例中找得著其痕跡。而對於判例，大理院則是承認其法源性，具有法規範效力，並且對其相當重視，形成獨特的地位，兼具羅馬法系與普通法系的特徵。 / This study is try to find the source of civil law during early republican china(1912-1928), and to apprehend how these kinds of source of civil law be shaped by the judges on the civil adjudications of Dali Yuan(Supreme Court). Besides, the focus is also on what these sources of law are and how Dali Yuan resolve the issue while these sources conflict. First, the statutory sources of civil law include the provisional constitution, treaties, Ching Empire Current Penal Code, and some civil regulations. Ching Empire Current Penal Code is the most important legal basis on the trial. Dali Yuan uses European legal concepts to interpret Ching Empire Current Penal Code and this give Penal Code a new life. Besides, Dali Yuan considers the treaty could be directly applied and not need to be by the way of internal legislative process. In this period, Civil Code Draft is still not valid, so that Dali Yuan takes Draft as principle of law to be applied. Moreover, foreign statutes sometimes can be found in the judgment to strengthen the reason. Of course, on the era of variance, sometimes traditional idea still exists in the judge mind. The precedent play an important role before the Civil Code is put in force. The precedents of Dali Yuan can be considered as source of law. The legal system during this period can be called the amalgamation of Roman law and common law.

This thesis attempts to critically and comparatively analyse the doctrine of exemption/frustration /force majeure under the United Nations Convention on the Contract for International Sale of Goods (CISG) the UNIDRIOT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (UNIDROIT) and the English Law. The doctrine of exemption/frustration/force majeure is very important in the area of contract and commercial law, it is a doctrine deeply rooted in fairness and allows a party to be excused from performing an obligation in a contract if at the conclusion of the contract an inhibition beyond the foreseeable control of the party happens to render the performance of the contract impossible. However, it is not easy to effectively streamline this doctrine and properly determine its applications. It has been observed in this thesis that, the doctrines of exemption/frustration /force majeure are not exactly the same; this thesis explores in details severally and jointly the various differences and similarities in the interpretations and applications of these impossibility doctrines. For instance, the open and flexible use of words in the definition of this doctrine under the CISG and the UNIDROIT Principles left much to be desired. Thus, it is one of the succinct arguments of this thesis that couching international law in loose words will work against the uniformity of application of this law, due to the different interpretations national law courts will be subjecting it to. This among other issues retarded the growth and development of the doctrine of exemption and force majeure. Furthermore, English law stance on the doctrine of frustration which can be gleaned from both the Sale of Goods Act of 1979 and the Common law are far from being adequate and need to be updated. This thesis therefore incisively laid bare the applications, interpretations and way forward for the doctrine of exemption/frustration/force majeure under the legal instruments of focus of this work. The thesis also comparatively compares the relationship between the doctrine of frustration/force majeure/exemption and other related doctrines like mistake, termination, avoidance, risk, and hardship. The thesis is concluded with a Draft Model Frustration Clause (DMFC) which is an attempt to rise above the status quo doctrine of frustration in the extant laws and develop a frustration clause that will be able to provide answers to the many flaws that trail these laws.

La réforme et l’harmonisation du droit des sûretés mobilières sont à l’ordre du jour de plusieurs organisations internationales, car il est admis qu’un régime de sûretés efficient favorise l’accès au crédit à de faibles coûts. L’harmonisation de ce droit comporte deux volets. D’une part, dans l’Occident industrialisé, les efforts d’harmonisation vont de la réforme des droits internes à l’établissement de régimes spéciaux relativement à des biens spécifiques (principalement les biens mobiles de grande valeur, tels les aéronefs, le matériel ferroviaire roulant et les satellites, et les biens incorporels, comprenant les créances, valeurs mobilières, actifs financiers et titres intermédiés). Ces efforts d’harmonisation démontrent que d’un point de vue systémique, malgré quelques différences notables, les régimes nord-américains et européens sont fondés sur des principes similaires et atteignent des résultats comparables. En résulte l’émergence d’un ordre juridique transnational en droit des sûretés mobilières, fondé sur les principes de la primauté de l’individu et la reconnaissance du droit de propriété de l’individu dans ses biens, mis en œuvre grâce à l’État de droit. D’autre part, les institutions financières internationales encouragent l’établissement de régimes de sûretés dans les pays en voie de développement qui obéissent aux mêmes critères que ceux de l’Occident, en insistant sur les réformes institutionnelles et juridiques visant l’établissement d’une bonne gouvernance et l’État de droit. Cependant, une transposition des régimes occidentaux ne peut se faire sans heurts dans les pays en voie de développement, notamment pour des raisons socio-culturelles et politiques. Lorsque les principes de la primauté de l’individu, de la propriété individuelle et de l’État de droit ne sont pas reconnus dans un pays donné, la réforme et l’harmonisation du droit des sûretés s’en trouvent compromis. La démonstration de l’état d’avancement de la réforme et de l’harmonisation du droit des sûretés dans les pays occidentaux industrialisés est faite grâce à une comparaison du Uniform Commercial Code, du Code civil du Québec, des Personal Property Security Acts des provinces canadiennes de common law, des principes des droits français et anglais, de l’influence du droit communautaire sur les pays membres de l’Union Européenne. Sont analysés, aussi, dans cette optique, les principaux instruments de l’harmonisation du droit émanant des organisations internationales. Par ailleurs, deux études de cas relatifs à la réforme du crédit foncier en Égypte et à la réforme de l’urbanisme et de l’habitat en République démocratique du Congo, viennent étayer les difficultés que rencontrent les institutions internationales, telles la Banque mondiale et l’ACDI, dans le cadre de projets de réformes visant la bonne gouvernance et l’instauration d’un véritable État de droit, en partie à cause d’un pluralisme des ordres juridiques de ces pays. / The reform and harmonization of secured transactions on movable (or personal) property is fostered by international organizations, on the assumption that an efficient regime of secured transactions will give access to affordable credit to a large number of persons and corporations. Such reform and harmonization process can be explained according to its two main features. Firstly, in Western and developped countries, the focus is on endeavours to harmonize the various regimes internally and to establish special regimes with respect to specific assets (for instance, high value mobile equipment, such as aircrafts, rolling stock or satellites, on the one hand, or incorporeal property, including securities, financial assets or security entitlements, on the other hand). Even though some differences remains from a systemic point of view, north american and european regimes are based on similar principles and achieve comparable results. It is therefore possible to see the emergence of a transnational legal order in the law of secured transactions, based on individuals and the enforcement of their rights of ownership, ascertained by the Rule of Law principle. Secondly, international financial institutions are encouraging the implementation of secured transactions regimes in developing countries along the same criteria as those used in Western developed countries, in the context of institutional and legal reforms under governance and rule of law projects. However, Western regimes must be adapted and customized before they are transplanted into a developing country. Indeed, for socio-cultural and political reasons, it is not possible to establish the same kind of regime therein. When individual rights and freedoms, including the right of ownership and the Rule of Law, are not recognized, the reform and harmonization of secured transactions is not likely to happen. The status of advancement of the reform and harmonization of secured transactions in the developed world is illustrated by a comparison between the Uniform Commercial Code, the Civil Code of Québec, the Personal Property Security Acts of canadian common law provinces, the applicable principles under both French and English Law, and the influence of European Law on its member states. An analysis of the main harmonization instruments proposed by international organizations is also conducted. Finally, the pitfalls of governance and rule of law reform projects are well described by two case studies. The first one deals with real estate and mortgage law reforms in Egypt, with a goal to encourage affordable access to housing; the second one is about urban planing and housing reforms in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The existence of a multiplicity of legal orders in these countries explains the difficulties encountered in such reform processes.

Jusqu’à une époque récente, un juriste étudiait un modèle juridique donné car il le considérait comme le meilleur. Telle est la constatation formulée par les comparatistes Antonio Gambaro, Rodolfo Sacco et Louis Vogel dans les premières lignes de leur Droit de l’Occident et d’ailleurs. Cette attitude cadre difficilement avec le contexte globalisant actuel. En revanche, un nombre croissant de juristes manifestent un intérêt renouvelé à l’égard du génie propre aux différentes traditions juridiques. À l’intérieur même d’une tradition juridique, un recul théorique est parfois nécessaire afin de mieux en apprécier la sagesse. Pour H. Patrick Glenn, la tradition juridique est vivante et évolutive. Le droit civil privé du Québec, branche de la tradition romaniste, constitue la résultante d’un processus de transmission de connaissances juridiques dont la pertinence est constamment mise à l’épreuve du temps et du contexte social. Très tôt, les dépositaires du savoir issu de la tradition romaniste ont cherché à définir la place de l’être humain dans la nature et cela, à toute époque confondue. La relation humaine avec la terre a fait l’objet de réflexions juridiques poussées dans le droit classique comme dans le droit moderne. Le droit des biens privé du Québec, branche fondamentale du droit civil, a intériorisé et adapté la somme de ce savoir à son propre contexte social et historique. La conception juridique de la terre a varié considérablement à l’intérieur même de la tradition romaniste. Ce mémoire propose une étude des représentations sociales et historiques de la terre dans la tradition romaniste. Cette étude a été menée en recourant à une approche interdisciplinaire du droit qui puise dans le savoir des disciplines philosophiques et historiques. Au terme de cette analyse, il sera établi que la structure de la propriété civiliste a conduit à une fragmentation juridique de la terre en autant d’utilités qu’il est techniquement possible pour l’être humain d’en tirer. / Until recently, legal scholars studied the specific legal model which was considered to be the best. This is the conclusion reached by comparative scholars Antonio Gambaro, Rodolfo Sacco and Louis Vogel in the first lines of Droit de l’Occident et d’ailleurs. This approach is difficult to reconcile within the context of our current globalized world. Therefore, a growing number of legal scholars have manifested a renewed interest in the strengths of different legal traditions. Within a legal tradition a theoretical examination is sometimes necessary in order to better appreciate its wisdom. For Patrick H. Glenn, legal tradition is living and evolving. Quebec Civil law, from the Roman tradition, is the result of a process of transmission of legal knowledge whose relevance is constantly put to the test of time and social context. Early on and during all ages, those responsible for transmitting the knowledge of the Roman tradition searched for ways to define the place of human beings within nature. The relationship between humans and the land has been the subject of numerous legal reflections both within classic and modern law. The law of private property in Quebec, a fundamental branch aspect of civil law, has internalized and adapted these reflections within its particular social and historical context. The legal concept of the land has varied considerably within the Roman tradition. This thesis proposes a study of social and historical representations of the land within the Roman tradition. It is rooted in an interdisciplinary legal approach, guided by philosophy and history. Through this analysis it will be established that the structure of property within the civil law tradition has created a legal fragmentation of the land, focused on its utilities, in order to enable human beings to derive as much as technically possible from it.