On August 1, 1866, the “Civil Code of Lower Canada” was introduced. About 125 years later, the “Civil Code of Quebec” was adopted and replaced that of Lower Canada. The “Civil Code of Quebec” has also been translated, notably into Spanish and Russian, he says. Civil law versus common lawThe legal system in Quebec differs from the rest of the country in that it is governed by two regimes: civil law and common law. “Some jurists in the common law provinces say, ‘Even when you do public law, constitutional law, criminal law or administrative law, you tend to reason a little more logically and Cartesianly, perhaps a little too much compared to what we would do common law lawyers,'” says Morin.