765 ILCS 25/ Acknowledgment Validation Act.

Updating the database of the Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) is an ongoing process. Recent laws may not yet be included in the ILCS database, but they are found on this site as Public Acts soon after they become law. For information concerning the relationship between statutes and Public Acts, refer to the Guide.

Because the statute database is maintained primarily for legislative drafting purposes, statutory changes are sometimes included in the statute database before they take effect. If the source note at the end of a Section of the statutes includes a Public Act that has not yet taken effect, the version of the law that is currently in effect may have already been removed from the database and you should refer to that Public Act to see the changes made to the current law.

765 ILCS 25/1

(765 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 30, par. 155a)

Sec. 1.

All deeds, mortgages, or other instruments in writing, relating to
or affecting any real estate situated in this State, wherein a corporation
was the grantor, mortgagor, grantee or mortgagee, which have been
acknowledged or proven prior to the effective date of Section 14 1/2 of "An
Act to provide for the appointment, qualification and duties of notaries
public and certifying their official acts and to provide for fines and
penalties for the violation thereof," approved April 5, 1872, as amended,
before any notary public, justice of the peace or other officer authorized
by the laws of this State to take acknowledgments of such instruments in
writing, when so acknowledged or proven in conformity with the laws of this
State, shall be adjudged and treated by all courts of this State as legally
executed and acknowledged or proven, notwithstanding such acknowledgments
or proof of the execution thereof were taken before a notary public,
justice of the peace or such other officer who was, at the time of such
acknowledgment, a stockholder or officer of such corporation; and all such
acknowledgments or proofs of such deeds, mortgages, or other instruments in
writing, heretofore taken before any such notaries public or other officers
are hereby legalized.

(Source: Laws 1939, p. 675.)

765 ILCS 25/1.1

(765 ILCS 25/1.1) (from Ch. 30, par. 155a.1)

Sec. 1.1.

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the

Acknowledgment Validation Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)