What is the difference between a judgment under seal and a simple contract?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Commission de la Construction du Québec v. Access Rigging Services Inc., 2010 ONSC 5897 (CanLII):
These are the substantive changes from the law set forth in the decision in Lax v. Lax, supra. In that case, the court drew a distinction between a specialty, that is, a document or a judgment under seal, and a simple contract. As stated, a judgment under seal being a specialty has a limitation of 20 years, whereas a simple contract has one of six.
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