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void
Civil Law
null
Title of the Legislative Text
Federal Real Property Act, S.C. 1991, c. 50 (title changed to Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act by the Federal Law-Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 1, S.C. 2001, c. 4, s. 10)
Provision
20. A Crown grant that is issued to or in the name of a person who is deceased is not for that reason void ....
Problem
With the reform of the Civil Code of Québec, the term
"void", used in the English version, is inappropriate.
Solution
In the English version, the term
"null"is added to reflect the new civil law terminology. The term
"void"is maintained for common law purposes.
Harmonized Provision
20. A Crown grant that is issued to or in the name of a person who is deceased is not for that reason null or void ....
Federal Law-Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 1, S.C. 2001, c. 4, s. 22
