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ONLINE LEGAL DOCUMENTS
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A
Access rights
Acknowledgement of debt
Acquisition title or title of ownership
Act respecting the legal publicity of enterprises
Act respecting the mode of payment for electric and gas service in certain buildings (r.s.q., c. m-37)
Active members
Additional hypothec/mortgage
Additional rent
Address
Adjusted book value
Adjustments
Adjustments
Administrator of the property of others
Administrator responsible for administering property bequeathed to a minor heir or incapacitated person
Agricultural zoning
Amortization
Amortization
Application for determination of boundaries
Application to the superior court
Appointment of a liquidator
Articles
Articles of amendment
Articles of amendment
As-built drawings
Ascendants
Asset rollover
Assets of the succession
Assignee
Assignor
Associate members
Assumed name
Assumption
Attestation
Attorney
Attorney
Auction sale
Auditor
Autorité des marchés financiers
B
Bachelor
Bachelor
Barreau du québec (quebec bar)
Bedding
Beneficiary (trust)
Benefits of division and discussion
Bequest
Birth certificate
Blocker bug
Board of directors
Boma standard
Bonus
Bounds
Breakdown (general)
Breakdown of purchase price
Bridge loan
Business corporation
Business corporation
(incorporation)
Business due diligence
By-laws
By-laws of the immovable
C
Cadastral registration
Cadastral renovation
Cadastre
Cadastre of quebec
Calculation of the portion used as family residence by an owner of an income property
Call for payment
Canada mortgage and housing corporation
Canadian maritime document
Canadian register of vessels
Canadian vessel
Cancellation
Capital
Capital gain
Case law
Cbca
Certificate authorizing the distribution of property
Certificate of location
Certificate of registry
Certified true copy
Cession of rank
Chambre des notaires du québec
Chartered accountant
Chief registrar
Child
Child in the first degree
Child of the marriage
Cipo
Civil code of quebec
Civil law
Civil status
Civil union
Civil union contract
Civil union dissolution agreement
Classes
Classified heritage property
Clearance certificate
Cnesst
Code of civil procedure
Codicil
Cohabitation agreement between de facto spouses
Commercial transaction
Common expenses
Common portion
Common portion for restricted use
Common-law relationship
Company key
Company policy
Company revenue sharing
Company rules
Compensatory indemnity
Conflict of interest
Consideration paid
Contingency fund
Contribution
Control
Conventional appointment
Copyright
Corporate members
Corporate name
Corporate vault
Corporations canada
Counter-offer
Cpa
Cpi
Creditor
Criteria set out in the civil code of québec.
Custodian
Custody right
D
D.t. 53
Damage
Date of transfer of ownership
De facto union
De facto union
Deadline
Death benefit
Death certificate
Debtor
Declaration of civil union
Declaration of co-ownership
Declaration of family residence
Declaration of legal heirs
Declaration of marriage
Declaration of the sole shareholder
Deed of sale of an immovable property
Delivery
Depositary
Description
Designated beneficiary
Designating number
Designating number
Determination of boundaries
Developer
Director (condo)
Director (corporation)
Discharge by a legatee by particular title
Dissolution
Divided co-ownership
Dividend
Divorce
Divorce and family law attorney
Divorcee
Doctrine
Donee
Donor
Down payment
Due diligence of a divided co-ownership
E
Eligible dividend
Emphyteusis
Emphyteuta
Employee
Encroachment
End of parental union
Enjoyment of the premises
Equity
Escrow
Escrow agreement
Escrow deposit agreement
Escrow trust agreement
Estate freeze
Event of default
Eviction
Exception
Exchange
Exclusions
Exclusivity clause
Executor/estate trustee
Exempt contribution (tfsa)
Exemption from seizure clause
Exercise period
Exercise price
Expedited
Expert witness
Express
Express renunciation
Expropriation
F
Fair market value
Family patrimony
Family residence
Fees (tm)
First director (corporation)
Fixed-term contract
Flood-risk area
Forced withdrawal
Foreign matrimonial regime
Foreign vessel
Formal notice
Fraction of divided co-ownership
Franchise
Full administration
Full name
G
General information regarding demotion
General information regarding suspension
General partnership
Goods
Grantor
Gross tonnage
Gst
Guarantee plan for new residential buildings
Guarantor
H
Head office / registered office
Heir
Heritage property
Heritage site
Holograph
Holographic will or codicil
Home insurance
Homologation
Honorary members
Housing complex
How the packages work
Hybrid mode
Hypothec/mortgage
Hypothec/mortgage on rents
Hypothecary remedies
Hypothecary seizure (foreclosure)
I
Immovable property
Immovable/real estate property
Implied
Important general information regarding the dismissal of an employee
Inalienability clause/stipulation
Incapacity
Inclusions
Income
Income splitting
Incorporeal property
Increase in value
Independent auditor's report
Individuals with significant control
Indivision
Indivision agreement
Initial declaration
Insider
Insolvent (estate)
Insurance fund
Intellectual property
Interested person
Intestate succession
Inventory
Issuer
J
Joint venture
Jointly liable
Judicial district
Jurisdiction
L
Land register
Land register (formerly the index to immovables)
Land surveyor
Latent defects
Lease
Leasehold improvements
Leed
Legacy by particular title
Legal age
Legal devolution
Legal expert
Legal hypothec/mortgage
Legal matrimonial regime
Legal person/entity
Legal warranty
Legally separated
Legatee
Legatee/beneficiary
Legislate
Lessor/landlord
Letters patent (immovable property)
Liabilities of the succession/estate
Licensee
Lif
Life insurance beneficiary
Life members
Limited partnership
Liquidator
Liquidator's resignation
Lira
Live online signing
Living will
M
Mandatary to property
Mandatary to the company
Mandatary to the person
Mandatary/attorney
Mandator/grantor
Mapaq
Marine mortgage
Marriage
Marriage certificate
Marriage contract
Master
Matrimonial regime
Matrimonial search
Medical assessment
Memorandum
Metes
Minute book
Minutes of proceedings
Monitor
Movable hypothec
Movable property
N
Natural person
Neq
New complex
Non-competition (general)
Non-competition (shareholder agreement)
Non-contentious proceeding
Non-solicitation
Notarial act
Note 1
Note 2
Notice
Notice of address
Notice of appointment of the liquidator
Notice of closure of the inventory
Notice of marriage
Notice of termination of employment
Notice period
Notice to reader
Numbered name
O
Objects
Offer to lease
Offer to purchase
Offer under a suspensive condition
Officer
Operating costs
Option (estate)
Ordinary ascendants
Ordinary collaterals
Other documents (1070 c.c.q.)
Outside the company
P
Par value
Parental union
Parental union assets
Partitionable value (divorce)
Partnership of acquests
Passenger
Patrimony
Percentage
Personal balance sheet
Persons connected by marriage or civil union
Piece of id
Piggyback clause
Pleasure craft
Pleasure craft licence
Possession
Preferential right to purchase
Preliminary contract
Present and future
Prior notice of the exercise of a hypothecary remedy
Private issuer
Private portion
Private property
Privileged ascendants
Privileged collaterals
Probate of a will
Professional accountant's report
Progressive discipline
Proportionate share (lease)
Proration
Protection area
Protection mandate in case of incapacity
Proxyholder
Psychosocial assessment
Public curator
Public domain
Public officer
Publication of the lease
Q
Qbca
Qst
Qualified
Qualified person
Qualifying home
Quebec enterprise registrar
R
Rdprm
Real property transfer duties
Reasonable notice period
Recognized heritage property
Records
Refusal of aggressive diagnosis or treatment
Register of co-ownership
Register of individuals with significant control (risc)
Registrar
Registrar of civil status
Registration (registred)
Registration (trademark)
Registration division
Registry office
Regulation respecting standards of practice for location certificates
Reinvestment
Relative value (of each fraction of divided co-ownership)
Release/discharge
Reliable source
Rendering of account (estate)
Rent
Representation
Reserve
Reserve for taxes
Resident of canada
Residue of the estate
Resignation
Retirement plan
Review engagement report
Right of first refusal
Rolling stock
Rrif
Rrsp
S
Sale by private agreement
Sale by way of a call for tenders
Sd/pd
Section 1105
Section 2.4 of regulation 45-106
Securities
Security
Seizure
Separated
Separation as to property
Serious fault
Service contract for independent worker
Services
Servitude
Settlor (trust)
Share capital
Share certificate
Shareholder
Shareholder agreement
Shareholder buy-sell agreement
Shares
Shotgun clause
Significant part of business activity
Simple administration
Small vessel
Software
Sole proprietorship
Solidarily liable
Solvency
Source codes
Specific bequests
Specific savings plan beneficiary or bequest
Spouse
Staking bench-mark
Start of parental union
Stock option
Strict time limit
Subrogated holder of tax-free savings account (tfsa)
Subscriber
Subscription for shares
Subsidiary
Successor
Superficiary
Superficies
Supervised visits
Supplier
Surety
Suretyship
Svcp
Sworn statement
Syndicate of co-owners
T
Tacit acceptance
Targeted territory
Tax rollover
Technical description
Term
Term (lease)
Termination or permanent layoff
Testator
Tfsa
Tfsa successor holder
Title examination
Title insurance
Tonnage measurer
Total consideration
Trade-mark agent
Trademark
Trademark restrictions
Transfer of registered education savings plan (resp) after death of subscriber
Trust
Trust account
Trust agreement
Trust operating a commercial enterprise
Trust patrimony
Trust will
Trustee
Tutor
Tutor ad hoc
Tutor to an incapcitated adult
Tutorship council
U
Ultimate beneficiary
Unanimous shareholder agreement
Undivided co-owners
Undivided co-ownership
Uninterrupted service
Universal legacy
Universality
Universality of movables
Unqualified
Update of a minute book
Upload
Use
Useful disbursements
Usufruct
V
Vessel
Views
Virtual power of attorney
Voting and participating shares
W
Waiver of liquidator's duties
Warranty of ownership
Warranty of quality
Widow/widower
Widow/widower
Will
Will or codicil before witnesses
Will search
Without warranty, at the risk and peril
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1061
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1070
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1072
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1072.2
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1074
1074.1
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1076
1076.1
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1078
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1080
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1084
1085
1086
1087
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1089
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1092
1093
1094
1095
1096
1097
1098
1099
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1101
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1103
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1105
1106
1106.1
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1108
1109
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1303
1304
1922
1931
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2136
2497
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2726
2727
2729
2731
2800
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299
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