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Business: getting paid, and answering a complaint

A business chasing an invoice and a business answering a complaint have the same practical problem: proving what happened, and on what date. This section gathers what has been read in the statute itself, section by section, with the citation and the date it was read. Nothing here is written from memory.

These are Quebec rules. Quebec law is enacted and applies in French, so each answer quotes the French text and links to the official source. The framing is in English; the law is quoted as it is written. Nothing is translated, because a translation nobody enacted is not the law.

Note. The 36 answers below are written in French, like the statutes they read. Their titles are shown as they are, so you know before you click. The English framing on this page is ours; the answers are not translated.

The one fact that decides everything for a small company: in Small Claims, a legal person may only sue if it had at most 10 people under its direction throughout the preceding 12 months (art. 536 C.C.P.), and the cap is $15,000, interest excluded. Above that, it is a different court and, in practice, a lawyer.

Getting paid

When an employee files a complaint

Building the file

A commercial dispute turns on dates and documents: the contract, the delivery or the work performed, the invoice, the reminders, the payments received, the exchanges. Preuve en main keeps that dated record, numbers the exhibits and produces a timeline.

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What was not read

12 topics were looked for and could not be confirmed at an official source. They are absent rather than guessed. In particular, there is no fixed « legal rate » of interest in Quebec law: the section everyone cites delegates to a regulation without setting a figure, and the 5 % commonly repeated comes from a federal statute.