Criminal Code — C-46 2
, in respect of the matters or things that barristers and solicitors, respectively, are authorized by the law of a province to do or perform in relation to legal proceedings; ( avocat ) count means a charge in an information or indictment; ( chef d’accusation ) court of appeal means, in all provinces, the Court of Appeal. ( cour d’appel ) court of criminal jurisdiction means (a) a court of general or quarter sessions of the peace, when presided over by a superior court judge, (a.1) in the Province of Quebec, the Court of Quebec, the municipal court of Montreal and the municipal court of Quebec, (b) a provincial court judge or judge acting under Part XIX, and (c) in the Province of Ontario, the Ontario Court of Justice; ( cour de juridiction criminelle ) criminal organization has the same meaning as in subsection 467.1(1); ( organisation criminelle ) criminal organization offence means (a) an offence under section 467.11, 467.111, 467.12 or 467.13, or a serious offence committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with, a criminal organization, or (b) a conspiracy or an attempt to commit, being an accessory after the fact in relation to, or any counselling in relation to, an offence referred to in paragraph (a); ( infraction d’organisation criminelle ) day means the period between six o’clock in the forenoon and nine o’clock in the afternoon of the same day; ( jour ) document of title to goods includes a bought and sold note, bill of lading, warrant, certificate or order for the delivery or transfer of goods or any other valuable thing, and any other document used in the ordinary course of business as evidence of the possession or control of goods, authorizing or purporting to authorize, by endorsement or by delivery, the person in possession of the document to transfer or receive any goods thereby represented or therein mentioned or referred to; ( titre de marchandises ) document of title to lands includes any writing that is or contains evidence of the title, or any part of the title, to real property or to any interest in real property, and any notarial or registrar’s copy thereof and any duplicate instrument, memorial, certificate or document authorized or required by any law in force in any part of Canada with respect to registration of titles that relates to title to real property or to any interest in real property; ( titre de bien-fonds ) dwelling-house means the whole or any part of a building or structure that is kept or occupied as a permanent or temporary residence, and includes (a) a building within the curtilage of a dwelling-house that is connected to it by a doorway or by a covered and enclosed passage-way, and (b) a unit that is designed to be mobile and to be used as a permanent or temporary residence and that is being used as such a residence; ( maison d’habitation ) environment means the components of the Earth and includes (a) air, land and water, (b) all layers of the atmosphere, (c) all organic and inorganic matter and living organisms, and (d) the interacting natural systems that include components referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c); ( environnement ) every one , person and owner , and similar expressions, include Her Majesty and an organization; ( quiconque , individu , personne et propriétaire ) explosive substance includes (a) anything intended to be used to make an explosive substance, (b) anything, or any part thereof, used or intended to be used, or adapted to cause, or to aid in causing an explosion in or with an explosive substance, and (c) an incendiary grenade, fire bomb, molotov cocktail or other similar incendiary substance or device and a delaying mechanism or other thing intended for use in connection with such a substance or device; ( substance explosive ) feeble-minded person [Repealed, 1991, c. 43, s. 9] firearm means a barrelled weapon from which any shot, bullet or other projectile can be discharged and that is capable of causing serious bodily injury or death