MORTGAGES

Joseph E. Roach, B.A.(S.C.), B.Ed.(N.B.), LL.B.

This title is the ideal resource for practitioners, academics and jurists seeking a straightforward narrative of the legal rules relating to the giving, taking and enforcement of mortgage security. The title is particularly helpful for those for whom mortgage law is not an area of ongoing expertise. A fully national work, it includes a discussion of law relating to hypothecs (both moveables and immoveables) under Québec's Civil Code and includes topics such as:

• Common law, statutory and equitable mortgages
• Mortgage registration and priority of security against title
• Calculation and payment of interest
• Equity of redemption and the right to redeem
• Mortgage remedies
  • Foreclosure actions
  • Judicial sale
  • Private or extrajudicial sale
• Right to possession
• Actions on the covenant and enforcement of the mortgage contract
• The doctrine of novation
• Acceleration and due-on-sale clauses
• Assignment of mortgages
• Guarantees and guarantor's obligations

MOTOR VEHICLES

The Hon. Justice Stephen E. Firestone, B.A., LL.B.

This national work provides a systematic, one-stop compendium of the law relating to the ownership and operation of motor vehicles including issues such as:

• Constitutional considerations and the division of legislative responsibility
• Licensing requirements for both vehicles and drivers
• Equipment and safety requirements
• Rules of the road
• Enforcement and prosecution issues
• Powers of police officers in relation to vehicles
• Parking rules and enforcement
• Driving instructors and driving schools
• Off-road vehicles
• Motor vehicle insurance
  • Rates, premiums and classification of risks
  • Statutory conditions
  • Damages and benefits payable under motor vehicle insurance contracts
  • Duties of insured and insurer