SB0173 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB0173

Introduced 1/28/2015, by Sen. John J. Cullerton

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

765 ILCS 5/4

from Ch. 30, par. 4

Amends the Conveyances Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a conveyor not in possession of the lands conveyed.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning civil law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Conveyances Act is amended by changing Section 4 as follows:

(765 ILCS 5/4) (from Ch. 30, par. 4)

Sec. 4. Any person claiming right or title to lands, tenements or hereditaments, although he, she or they may be out of possession, and and notwithstanding there may be an adverse possession thereof, may sell, convey and transfer his or her interest in and to the same, in as full and complete a manner as if he or she were in the actual possession of the lands and premises intended to be conveyed; and the grantee or grantees shall have the same right of action for the recovery thereof, and shall in all respects derive the same benefit and advantage therefrom, as if the grantor or grantors had been in the actual possession at the time of executing the conveyance.

(Source: Laws 1871-2, p. 282.)