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Civil law 2020 SCC 15

Toronto‑Dominion Bank v. Young

La Cour suprême confirme le rejet de l’appel de TD Bank : une action hypothécaire contre le propriétaire actuel n’empêche pas la prescription de la créance personnelle.

  • Hypothec
  • Taking in payment
  • Forced surrender
  • Interruption of prescription
  • Prior notice
  • Accessory right
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Civil law 2010 SCC 44

Christensen v. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Québec

La Cour suprême permet l’appel et renvoie l’affaire au tribunal supérieur pour déterminer, sur preuve, si l’action était prescrite ou si la prescription avait été suspendue.

  • Extinctive prescription
  • Limitation period
  • Suspension and interruption of prescription
  • Inference of knowledge
  • Late disclosure of sexual assault
  • Extinctive-prescription
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Civil procedure [1981] 2 SCR 113

Oznaga v. Société d'exploitation des loteries

The Supreme Court of Canada held that the 30-day notice rule for a Loto-Perfecta claim was not a condition precedent and could be suspended if the claimant learned the facts only later due to concealment.

  • Suspension of limitation periods
  • Notice requirements
  • Interpretation of regulation
  • Contra non valentem
  • Notice-requirements
  • Limitations-periods
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Appeal [1938] SCR 392

Ballantyne v. Edwards

The Supreme Court of Canada held that the Court of King’s Bench judgment on prescription was a final judgment under s. 2(b), so the motion to quash the appeal failed.

  • Jurisdiction of supreme court
  • Final judgment under s.2(b)
  • Prescription between spouses
  • Inscription in law
  • Appeal-jurisdiction
  • Final-judgment
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Insurance law (1888) 15 SCR 488

Allen v. The Merchants Marine Ins. Co.

The Supreme Court of Canada upheld a one-year claim clause in a marine insurance policy and dismissed the appeal because the action was brought too late.

  • Marine insurance policy conditions
  • Limitation clause (conventional prescription)
  • Waiver
  • Civil code article 2184
  • Marine-insurance
  • Contractual-limitation-periods
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Estates (1886) 13 SCR 319

Gregoire v. Gregoire

Appeal about a minor’s sale to her father/tutor, the validity of an inventory, and whether the action was prescribed by ten or thirty years.

  • Inventory of community property
  • Sale by minor emancipated by marriage
  • Nullity/rescission of contracts
  • Prescription (10 vs 30 years)
  • Obligation to render account by tutor
  • Article 311 civil code
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