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735 ILCS 5/8-1106

    (735 ILCS 5/8-1106) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-1106)
    Sec. 8-1106. Reports of courts. The books of reports of decisions of the supreme court, and other courts of the United States, of this state, and of the several states and the territories thereof, purporting to be published by authority, may be read as evidence of the decisions of such courts.
(Source: P.A. 82-280.)

735 ILCS 5/Art. VIII Pt. 12

 
    (735 ILCS 5/Art. VIII Pt. 12 heading)
Part 12. Records and Patents

735 ILCS 5/8-1201

    (735 ILCS 5/8-1201) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-1201)
    Sec. 8-1201. Printed copies. Printed copies of schedules, classifications and tariffs of rates, fares and charges, and supplements to any such schedules, classifications and tariffs filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission, which show respectively an Interstate Commerce Commission number, which may be stated in abbreviated form, as I.C.C. No. --, and an effective date, shall be presumed to be correct copies of the original schedules, classifications, tariffs and supplements on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission, and shall be received as good and sufficient evidence, without certification, in any court of this State to prove such schedules, classifications, tariffs and supplements.
(Source: P.A. 82-280.)

735 ILCS 5/8-1202

    (735 ILCS 5/8-1202) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-1202)
    Sec. 8-1202. Court records. The papers, entries and records of courts may be proved by a copy thereof certified under the signature of the clerk having the custody thereof, and the seal of the court, or by the judge of the court if there is no clerk.
(Source: P.A. 83-707.)

735 ILCS 5/8-1203

    (735 ILCS 5/8-1203) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-1203)
    Sec. 8-1203. Municipal records. The papers, entries, records and ordinances, or parts thereof, of any city, village, town or county, may be proved by a copy thereof, certified under the signature of the clerk or the keeper thereof, and the corporate seal, if there is any; if not, under his or her signature and private seal.
(Source: P.A. 83-707.)

735 ILCS 5/8-1204

    (735 ILCS 5/8-1204) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-1204)
    Sec. 8-1204. Corporate records. The papers, entries and records of any corporation or incorporated association may be proved by a copy thereof, certified under the signature of the secretary, clerk, cashier or other keeper of the same. If the corporation or incorporated association has a seal, the same shall be affixed to such certificate.
(Source: P.A. 82-280.)

735 ILCS 5/8-1205

    (735 ILCS 5/8-1205) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-1205)
    Sec. 8-1205. Form of certificate. The certificate of any such clerk of a court, city, village, town, county, or secretary, clerk, cashier, or other keeper of any such papers, entries, records or ordinances, shall contain a statement that such person is the keeper of the same, and if there is no seal, shall so state.
(Source: P.A. 82-280.)

735 ILCS 5/8-1206

    (735 ILCS 5/8-1206) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-1206)
    Sec. 8-1206. Sworn copies. Any such papers, entries, records and ordinances may be proved by copies examined and sworn to by credible witnesses.
(Source: P.A. 82-280.)

735 ILCS 5/8-1207

    (735 ILCS 5/8-1207) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-1207)
    Sec. 8-1207. Penalty. If any officer, clerk, secretary, cashier, or other person authorized to certify copies of any papers, entries, records or ordinances, knowingly makes a false certificate, he or she is punishable in the same manner as if he or she were guilty of perjury.
(Source: P.A. 82-280.)

735 ILCS 5/8-1208

    (735 ILCS 5/8-1208) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-1208)
    Sec. 8-1208. Official certificate - Land office. The official certificate of any register or receiver of any land office of the United States, to any fact or matter on record in his or her office, shall be received in evidence in any court in this State, and shall be competent to prove the fact so certified. The certificate of any such register, of the entry or purchase of any tract of land within his or her district, shall be deemed and taken to be evidence of title in the party who made such entry or purchase, or his or her legatees, heirs or assigns, and shall enable such party, his or her legatees, heirs or assigns, to recover or protect the possession of the land described in such certificate, in any eviction action or action of ejectment, unless a better legal and paramount title be exhibited for the same. The signature of such register or receiver may be proved by a certificate of the Secretary of State, under his or her seal, that such signature is genuine.
(Source: P.A. 100-173, eff. 1-1-18.)

735 ILCS 5/8-1209

    (735 ILCS 5/8-1209) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-1209)
    Sec. 8-1209. Patents for land. A patent for land shall be deemed and considered a better legal and paramount title in the patentee, his or her legatees, heirs or assigns, than the official certificate of any register of a land office of the United States, of the entry or purchase of the same land.
(Source: P.A. 83-707.)

735 ILCS 5/8-1210

    (735 ILCS 5/8-1210) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-1210)
    Sec. 8-1210. State patents. In all cases where any lands or lots have been or may be sold by this State or any of the officers thereof, under the authority of any law of this State, whereof the patent is issued by the Governor, under the seal of this State, and in case the patent has been or shall purport to be recorded in the recorder's office of the county where the lands or lots are situated, and the patent is lost, or out of the power of the party desiring to use it to produce in evidence, a copy of the record of such patent, certified by the recorder of the county, may be read in evidence in place of the original patent, which copy certified as above stated, shall be prima facie evidence of the issuing of such patent, and of the contents thereof. The provisions of this section shall apply to deeds executed by the trustees of the Illinois and Michigan canal, and to patents for land issued or granted by the United States.
(Source: P.A. 83-707.)