Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-3001 – Deeds and conveyances; validation
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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-3001
- County board: means the board of county commissioners in counties not under township organization, and the board of supervisors in counties under township organization, and the board of commissioners of Cook County. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.07
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
- Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
- Heretofore: means any time previous to the day on which the statute takes effect; and the word "hereafter" at any time after such day. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.17
All deeds, grants and conveyances heretofore made, and duly acknowledged and recorded as other deeds, conveying any lands, tenements or hereditaments to any county or to the inhabitants of any county, or to the county commissioners, county board, or to the governor, or any other officer or person or persons, by whatever form of conveyance, for the use and benefit of any county, shall be good and valid, to all intents and purposes, to vest in such county, in fee simple, or otherwise, all such right, title, interest an estate as the grantor or grantors in any such deed or conveyance had, at the time of the execution thereof, in the land conveyed and intended thereby to be conveyed.