(315 ILCS 20/44) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 294)
    Sec. 44. Partial invalidity. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this Act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which the judgment shall have been rendered.
(Source: Laws 1941, vol. 1, p. 431.)