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Ordinances made and passed by the Governor and Council of the province of Quebec, 1763-1791, chapter V.

The province's Legislative Council lowers the age of majority from 25 to 21.Īn Ordinance, For altering, fixing and establishing the Age of Majority 1774Ī law of the British Parliament - The Quebec Act, 1774 -reinstates French law regarding civil matters. This measure is not well received by the populace, which does not hesitate to voice its discontent. The authorities decide that British law will henceforth apply in criminal as well as in civil matters. By the end of the sixteenth century, the Paris Custom had become the prevailing one in France. King Louis XIV decrees that the colony will be subject to the "Paris Custom" ( Coutume de Paris), which ends a system under which customs from several different regions of France applied in New France (as Quebec was then called). France takes possession of what is now the territory of the Province of Quebec.