(5 ILCS 85/2) (from Ch. 1, par. 1651)
Sec. 2.
The repeal of the acts and parts of acts mentioned in the
preceding section shall not affect suits pending or rights existing at
the time this act takes effect, and as to all corporations, municipal or
private, heretofore formed under any act of incorporation mentioned in
the preceding section, such act of incorporation, and all amendments
thereof, shall continue in force to the same extent and with like effect
as if the same had not been repealed by this act, nor shall such repeal,
as above mentioned, be taken, construed or held to avoid or impair any
grant made or right acquired, or cause of action now existing under any
such acts or the amendments thereto, but as to all grants made or rights
acquired or causes of action now existing, said laws shall be continued
in full force and effect. And all deeds or other instruments of writing
affecting real estate, which have been proved or acknowledged according
to any law in force at the time such proof or acknowledgment was made,
may be recorded, and the same or a certified copy of the record thereof
be read in evidence, notwithstanding the repeal of such laws by this or
any other act of this or the twenty-seventh General Assembly. And when
any limitation law has been revised by this or the twenty-seventh
General Assembly, and the former limitation law repealed, such repeal
shall not be construed so as to stop the running of any statute, but the
time shall be construed as if such repeal had not been made.
(Source: R.S. 1874, p. 1012.)
|