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Please be advised that the legislation and policy governing Government of Canada Web sites, including official language requirements, do not apply for some of the links provided below.

Dictionaries

• Canadian Common Law Dictionary: Law of Property and Estates
• Canadian Law Site
• Dictionnaire de droit privé et lexiques bilingues - Obligations (in French only)
• Dictionnaire du droit privé français (in French only)
• Duhaime's Legal Dictionary
• Juridictionnaire : Recueil des difficultés et des ressources du français juridique (in French only)
• La common law de A à Z (in French only)
• Legal Dictionary of Property in Canada
• Private Law Dictionary of the Family and Bilingual Lexicons

Terminology

• JURITERM en ligne : Banque terminologique de la common law (Centre de traduction et de terminologie juridiques, Université de Moncton) (in French only)
• Le langage clair : un outil indispensable à l’avocat (Barreau du Québec) (in French only)
• Lexicon of Ontario Statutes and Regulations (Centre for Translation and Legal Documentation, University of Ottawa and Centre franco-ontarien de ressources pédagogiques)
• Family Law Glossary (Common Law). Fascicle 1 (Translation Bureau)
• Law of Contracts and Law of Torts Glossary (Translation Bureau)
• Law of Trusts Glossary (common law) (Translation Bureau)
• Law of Security Glossary (Common Law) (Translation Bureau)
• Legal Glossary of Federal Statutes (Centre for Translation and Legal Documentation, University of Ottawa)
• Promoting Access to Justice in Both Official Languages
• Titles and Designations of Judges, Courts and Law Journals (Centre de traduction et de terminologie juridiques, Université de Moncton)
• Termium Plus (Translation Bureau)
• Tradulex

Jurisprudence

• Jurisprudence: précédents ontariens en français (Centre for Translation and Legal Documentation, University of Ottawa) (in French only)
• Les grands arrêts de la common law (Université de Moncton) (in French only)
• Résumés d’arrêts (Institut Joseph-Dubuc) (in French only)

Other resources

• Capsules juridiques (Institut Joseph-Dubuc) (in French only)
• Formulaires en droit successoral : testaments (Centre for Translation and Legal Documentation, University of Ottawa) (in French only)
• Guide fédéral de jurilinguistique législative française (in French only)
• Juricourriels (Institut Joseph-Dubuc) (in French only)
• La common law en poche (Université de Moncton) (in French only)
• Liste d’outils linguistiques pour la traduction juridique au Canada (Centre de traduction et de terminologie juridiques, Université de Moncton) (in French only)
• Language Portal of Canada

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