(735 ILCS 5/8-1601) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-1601)
Sec. 8-1601.
Execution of deed.
Whenever any deed, mortgage, conveyance, release,
power of attorney or other writing of, or relating to the sale,
conveyance or other disposition of real estate, or any interest therein,
or any other instrument in writing not required by law to be attested by
a subscribing witness, may be offered in evidence in any action
pending in any court of this state, and the same
appears to have been so attested, and it becomes necessary to prove
the execution of such deed or other writing otherwise than as now
provided by law, it shall not be necessary to prove the execution of the
same by a subscribing witness to the exclusion of other evidence, but
the execution of such instrument may be proved by secondary evidence
without producing or accounting for the absence of the subscribing
witness or witnesses.
(Source: P.A. 82-280.)
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(735 ILCS 5/Art. VIII Pt. 17 heading) Part 17.
Title to Land of Illinois Central Railroad
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(735 ILCS 5/8-1701) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-1701)
Sec. 8-1701.
Commissioner's tract list, map, etc.
- evidence.
Whenever it becomes
necessary, in any judicial proceeding, to prove the title of the Illinois
Central Railroad Company, or of the trustees of the railroad company,
or of any person claiming title through or under the company or
trustees, to any of the lands granted by the State to the railroad
company under the provisions of the Act incorporating such company, the
record in the proper county (or a transcript of such record, duly
certified by the custodian thereof), of the list purporting to contain
the tracts of land selected by the railroad company in such county, and
purporting to be certified by the commissioner of the general land
office as being a true abstract from the original list of selections by
the company, shall be sufficient prima facie evidence of title in the
railroad company or the trustees thereof, as the case may be, to
the lands embraced in such list; and the record in the proper county (or
a duly certified copy thereof by the custodian of such record) of the
map or profile of the railroad or branches, shall be sufficient prima
facie evidence of the line of location of the railroad or its branches
in such county.
(Source: P.A. 82-280.)
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