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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 105 ILCS 560/10

  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
     All bonds issued before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly by any school district for the purpose of funding the costs of equitable remedies ordered by a federal court in litigation involving school desegregation and all refunding bonds issued before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly to refund those bonds are hereby validated, ratified, and confirmed as lawful, valid, and binding general obligations of that school district, notwithstanding that the bonds and refunding bonds were not approved by referendum or otherwise authorized and issued in accordance with law.