93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB2247

 

Introduced 1/15/2004, by Emil Jones Jr.

 

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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1     AN ACT in relation to property.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Conveyances Act is amended by changing
5 Section 1 as follows:
 
6     (765 ILCS 5/1)  (from Ch. 30, par. 1)
7     Sec. 1. Livery of seizin not necessary. Livery of seizin
8 shall in no case be necessary for the conveyance of real
9 property; but every deed, mortgage or other conveyance in
10 writing, not procured by duress, and signed by the party making
11 the same, the maker or makers being of full age and sound mind,
12 shall be sufficient, without livery of seizin, for the giving,
13 granting, selling, mortgaging, leasing or otherwise conveying
14 or transferring any lands, tenements or hereditaments in this
15 state, so as, to all intents and purposes, absolutely and fully
16 to vest in every donee, grantee, bargainee, mortgagee, lessee
17 or purchaser, all such estate or estates as shall be specified
18 in any such deed, mortgage, lease or other conveyance. Nothing
19 herein contained shall be so construed as to divest or defeat
20 the older or better estate or right of any person or persons,
21 not party to any such deed, mortgage, lease, or other
22 conveyance.
23 (Source: P.A. 80-660.)