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Section 273
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273. When the Superior Court and the Court of Québec are seized of actions having the same juridical basis or raising the same questions of law and fact, the Court of Québec must, if one of the parties so requests and no serious prejudice can result to the opposite party, suspend the hearing of the case before it until the judgment in the case before the Superior Court has become definitive.
An order by the Court of Québec suspending the hearing may be revoked if warranted by new circumstances.
273. When the Superior Court and the Court of Québec are seized of actions having the same juridical basis or raising the same questions of law and fact, the Court of Québec must, if one of the parties so requests and no serious prejudice can result to the opposite party, suspend the hearing of the case before it until the judgment in the case before the Superior Court has become definitive.
273. When the Superior Court and the Provincial Court are seized of actions having the same juridical basis or raising the same questions of law and fact, the Provincial Court must, if one of the parties so requests and no serious prejudice can result to the opposite party, suspend the hearing of the case before it until the judgment in the case before the Superior Court has become definitive.
