96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB2053

 

Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Sara Feigenholtz

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
755 ILCS 5/1-9   from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 1-9

    Amends the Probate Act of 1975. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the construction of the Act.


LRB096 05582 AJO 15648 b

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

HB2053 LRB096 05582 AJO 15648 b

1     AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Probate Act of 1975 is amended by changing
5 Section 1-9 as follows:
 
6     (755 ILCS 5/1-9)  (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 1-9)
7     Sec. 1-9. Act to be liberally construed.) This Act and and
8 the rules now or hereafter applicable thereto shall be
9 liberally construed to the end that controversies and the
10 rights of the parties may be speedily and finally determined
11 and the rule that statutes in derogation of the common law
12 shall be strictly construed does not apply.
13 (Source: P.A. 79-328.)