. Sainte‑Julie (City) v. Investissements Laroda inc.
In Sainte‑Julie (City) v. Investissements Laroda inc. (SCC, 2025) the Supreme Court of Canada considered the contractual doctrine of 'novation', here in a Quebec case which is mostly Civil Code-related:
[35] Novation is an alteration of an obligation that originates in Roman law (J.‑P. Lévy and A. Castaldo, Histoire du droit civil (2nd ed. 2010), at Nos. 719‑22). This operation has two distinct and simultaneous legal consequences: the extinction of the initial relationship, without payment, and the creation of a relationship that is both new and different (J.‑L. Baudouin and P.‑G. Jobin, Les obligations (7th ed. 2013), by P.‑G. Jobin and N. Vézina, at No. 994; D. Lluelles and B. Moore, Droit des obligations (3rd ed. 2018), at No. 3072). Novation involves an [translation] “organized severing” of the initial obligational relationship (Lluelles and Moore, at No. 3072 (emphasis deleted)).
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