If you feel overwhelmed and intimidated each time you are asked to research a legal question involving the civil law of Québec, help is on the way. The Civil Code of Québec in Chart Form, by Denis Le May, provides a graphic, simple access tool for the Code. A series of tables and charts shows the general structure of the Code and the interrelationship between its component parts. Le May provides a broad overview of the subject categories covered by the Code and an explanation of the numbering system he adopted to represent the subdivisions in a uniform fashion. Each separate Book of the Civil Code has its own chapter. Each chapter contains the following:

• a chart giving an overall pictorial representation of the contents of that Book
• a table of contents
• a summary (including the text of important articles, definitions and explanatory notes)
• individual charts for subdivisions
• an index

The organizational structure of the book provides general finding tools and easy access to researchers in a variety of different situations:

• if she doesn’t know where a concept is located (use the general index)
• if he knows the article number but wants to see the corresponding segment (use the articles/charts concordance table)
• if she knows in which Book the concept is located, but not the specific article (use the table of contents for that particular Book)
• if he wants to quickly ascertain whether or not there is a chart which corresponds to the concept being researched (use the list of charts or the alphabetical index)

Summary Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Methods and Charts
Preliminary Provision

BOOK ONE: Persons
BOOK TWO: The Family
BOOK THREE: Successsions
BOOK FOUR: Property
BOOK FIVE: Obligations
BOOK SIX: Prior Claims and Hypothecs
BOOK SEVEN: Evidence
BOOK EIGHT: Prescription
BOOK NINE: Publication of Rights
BOOK TEN: Private International Law
Final Provisions
Finding Tools

APPENDIX 1: Changes in Terminology: From the Former Civil Code to the New Civil Code
APPENDIX 2: Changes in Terminology: From the New Civil Code to the Former Civil Code
General Index
About the Author