Bibliographic record
Abstract
Within the framework of a broader research into the sources of the civil law of obligations, the author starts, here, from the historical fact that, on the one hand, the private law of Québec constitutes, since 1866, and contrary to the common law, an essentially legislated system, in the form of a Civil Code enacted in the French civilian tradition, and that, on the other hand, that form was maintained in the 1994 new Civil Code of Quebec. In reflecting on the method of codification, on the basis of various definitions of the term code, the author presents and analyzes what he considers to be the characteristic features of a modern civil code: democracy, commandment, globality, predictability, simplification. The author notes that the process of recodification, which was preceded by an immense collective effort of reflection in which Professor Castel was a large contributor, constitutes, however fascinating it is, a difficult and delicate undertaking, and a challenge that one can only take on with "trembling hands"; it has undeniable advantages, but presents real dangers. One must learn to benefit from the advantages, particularly by developing, on the basis of the new code, a coherent system of private law that can respond to the changing needs of Civil Justice; one must also face the dangers and anticipate corrective measures so as to avoid the problems of the past. Finally, the author concludes by noting that a Civil Code, whatever be its content, essentially translates, as was suggested by the great comparative scholar René David, a "style," that is, a particular way of conceiving, of expressing, of interpreting and of applying a rule of law.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.017 | 0.044 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.030 | 0.018 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.016 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".