(735 ILCS 5/15-1207) (from Ch. 110, par. 15-1207)
Sec. 15-1207.
Mortgage.
"Mortgage" means any consensual lien created
by a written instrument which grants or retains an interest in real estate
to secure a debt or other obligation. The term "mortgage" includes, without limitation:
(a) mortgages securing "reverse mortgage" loans as authorized by
subsection (a) of Section
5 of the Illinois Banking Act;
(b) mortgages securing "revolving credit" loans as authorized by
subsection (c) of Section
5 of the Illinois Banking Act, Section 1-6b of the Illinois Savings and
Loan Act and Section 46 of the Illinois Credit Union Act;
(c) every deed conveying real estate, although an absolute conveyance in
its terms, which shall have been intended only as a security in the nature
of a mortgage;
(d) equitable mortgages; and
(e) instruments which would have been deemed instruments in the nature
of a mortgage prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1987.
(Source: P.A. 85-907.)
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