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90_HB2483
740 ILCS 80/2 from Ch. 59, par. 2
Amends the Frauds Act. Provides that no action shall be
brought to charge a person upon a conveyance of land unless
the conveyance is in writing and signed by the party to be
charged. Provides that this amendatory Act is declaratory of
existing law and is intended to remove possible ambiguities,
thereby confirming the existing meaning of the Frauds Act in
effect before the effective date of this amendatory Act.
Effective immediately.
LRB9008812DJcd
LRB9008812DJcd
1 AN ACT to amend the Frauds Act by changing Section 2.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Frauds Act is amended by changing
5 Section 2 as follows:
6 (740 ILCS 80/2) (from Ch. 59, par. 2)
7 Sec. 2. No action shall be brought to charge any person
8 upon any conveyance or contract for the sale of lands,
9 tenements or hereditaments or any interest in or concerning
10 them, for a longer term than one year, unless such conveyance
11 or contract or some memorandum or note thereof shall be in
12 writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or
13 some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized in
14 writing, signed by such party. This Section shall not apply
15 to sales for the enforcement of a judgment for the payment of
16 money or sales by any officer or person pursuant to a
17 judgment or order of any court in this State. This amendatory
18 Act of 1998 is declaratory of existing law and is intended
19 to remove possible ambiguities, thereby confirming the
20 existing meaning of the Frauds Act in effect before the
21 effective date of this amendatory Act of 1998.
22 (Source: P.A. 83-346.)
23 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
24 becoming law.