Bill Text: IL HB1549 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Conveyances Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a conveyor not in possession of the lands conveyed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1549 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB1549-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB1549 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
765 ILCS 5/4 from Ch. 30, par. 4
Amends the Conveyances Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a conveyor not in possession of the lands conveyed.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Conveyances Act is amended by changing
Section 4 as follows:
(765 ILCS 5/4) (from Ch. 30, par. 4)
Sec. 4. Any person claiming right or title to lands,
tenements or hereditaments, although he, she or they may be out
of possession, and and notwithstanding there may be an adverse
possession thereof, may sell, convey and transfer his or her
interest in and to the same, in as full and complete a manner
as if he or she were in the actual possession of the lands and
premises intended to be conveyed; and the grantee or grantees
shall have the same right of action for the recovery thereof,
and shall in all respects derive the same benefit and advantage
therefrom, as if the grantor or grantors had been in the actual
possession at the time of executing the conveyance.
(Source: Laws 1871-2, p. 282.)