5 ILCS 70/2

(5 ILCS 70/2) (from Ch. 1, par. 1101)

Sec. 2. The provisions of any statute, so far as they are the same as those of any prior statute, shall be construed as a continuation of such prior provisions, and not as a new enactment.

(Source: R.S. 1874, p. 1011.)