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735 ILCS 5/13-205

(735 ILCS 5/13-205) (from Ch. 110, par. 13-205)

Sec. 13-205.

Five year limitation.

Except as provided in Section 2-725
of the "Uniform
Commercial Code", approved July 31, 1961, as amended, and Section 11-13
of "The Illinois Public Aid Code", approved April 11, 1967, as amended,
actions on unwritten contracts, expressed or implied, or on awards of
arbitration, or to recover damages for an injury done to property, real
or personal, or to recover the possession of personal property or
damages for the detention or conversion thereof, and all civil actions
not otherwise provided for, shall be commenced within 5 years next after
the cause of action accrued.

(Source: P.A. 82-280.)