Legal Pragmatics

Within the context of legal systems Canada manifests unique features originating in the co-existence of the two different legal systems of common law and civil law, worded respectively in English and French. Some converging and diverging elements of this idiosyncratic bijural and bilingual legal regime are examined and terminological issues arising in the process of harmonizing federal legislation with the Code Civil du Québec are discussed. The focus is on the procedure adopted in cases of conc