Civil Code of Lower Canada
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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du Bas-Canada) was a law that was in effect in Lower Canada on 1 August 1866 and remained in effect in Quebec until repealed and replaced by the Civil Code of Quebec on 1 January 1994. The Code replaced a mixture of French law and English law that had arisen in Lower Canada since the creation of the British Province of Quebec by the Royal Proclamation of 1763, as modified by the Quebec Act in 1774.
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Code civil du Bas-Canada | |
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Parliament of the Province of Canada | |
Citation | 29 Vict., ch. 41, (1865) |
Territorial extent | Lower Canada (Quebec from 1 July 1867) |
Royal assent | 18 September 1865 |
Commenced | 1 August 1866 |
Repealed | 1 January 1994 (provincial) 1 June 2001 (federal) |
Status: Repealed |
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