Bill Text: IL HB5535 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Conveyances Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning livery of seizin.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-09 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5535 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB5535-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB5535 Introduced 2/9/2010, by Rep. Lisa M. Dugan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
765 ILCS 5/1 from Ch. 30, par. 1
Amends the Conveyances Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning livery of seizin.
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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 1 as follows:
(765 ILCS 5/1) (from Ch. 30, par. 1)
Sec. 1. Livery of seizin shall in no case be necessary for
the the conveyance of real property; but every deed, mortgage
or other conveyance in writing, not procured by duress, and
signed by the party making the same, the maker or makers being
of full age and sound mind, shall be sufficient, without livery
of seizin, for the giving, granting, selling, mortgaging,
leasing or otherwise conveying or transferring any lands,
tenements or hereditaments in this state, so as, to all intents
and purposes, absolutely and fully to vest in every donee,
grantee, bargainee, mortgagee, lessee or purchaser, all such
estate or estates as shall be specified in any such deed,
mortgage, lease or other conveyance. Nothing herein contained
shall be so construed as to divest or defeat the older or
better estate or right of any person or persons, not party to
any such deed, mortgage, lease, or other conveyance.
(Source: P.A. 80-660.)