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Property 2020 SCC 37

Hydro-Québec v. Matta

The Supreme Court held that post-expropriation servitude agreements, read on their clear terms, allowed Hydro-Québec to route a second transmission line across the lots.

  • Servitude interpretation
  • Conventional servitudes vs expropriation
  • Order in council
  • Injunction
  • Infrastructure modernization
  • Transmission line reconfiguration
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Property law [1939] SCR 28

Kert v. Winsberg

Appeal dismissed. The Court held that translucent glass openings in a wall built half on a neighbour’s land were prohibited “jours” under the Quebec Civil Code.

  • Right of view
  • MitoyennetĂ©
  • Openings (jours) in walls
  • Interpretation of civil code articles 515, 533, 534
  • Servitudes
  • Mitoyennete
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Expropriation [1932] SCR 539

Quebec Skating Club v. The King

On expropriation valuation, the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed a $31,500 award and dismissed both appeal and cross-appeal with costs.

  • Market value
  • Compensation
  • Title
  • Servitudes
  • Valuation date
  • Expropriation
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Property law (1912) 46 SCR 589

Morgan v. Avenue Realty Co.

The Supreme Court of Canada held that the respondents’ use of the appellants’ wall as an exterior party-wall required them to pay one-half its value.

  • Party-wall (mitoyennetĂ©)
  • Contribution to cost of party wall
  • Usurpation of wall
  • Municipal building permits
  • Party-wall
  • Mitoyennete
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