Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force 21st July, 1837.

AN ACT concerning the Recording of Conveyances.
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Proviso.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the recording of any deed, grant, bargain, sale, lease, release, mortgage, defeasance, conveyance, bond, contract or agreement of and concerning any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or whereby the same may be effected in law or equity, whether executed within or without the state, by the recorder of the county in which the lands, tenements or hereditaments, intended to be effected and situated, shall be deemed and taken to be notice to subsequent purchasers, and creditors from the date of such recording, whether the said writing shall have been acknowledged or proven in conformity with the laws of the State or not; provided, That no such writing not acknowledged or proven in conformity with

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the laws of the state, to entitle the same to be recorded, shall be admitted as evidence in any court, unless execution thereof be proven in the manner required by the rules of evidence applicable to such writings; and the provisions of this act shall apply as well to writings heretofore, as those hereafter admitted to record.

Approved, 21st July, 1837.

1John S. Hacker introduced SB 6 in the Senate on July 12, 1837. The Senate passed the bill on July 15. The House of Representatives concurred on July 20. On July 21, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at a Special Session of the General Assembly, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, July 10, 1837 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 75, 96, 127, 148; Journal of the Senate of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at a Special Session, Begun and Held in Vandalia, July 10, 1837 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 42, 50, 65, 107, 117, 121.