Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Sec[Section]. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Judgments rendered by any Court of record in this State shall be considered as, or taken to be, a lein, or incumbrance upon any real estate, out of the County in which such judgment was, or shall be rendered, unless, a certified copy of such judgment under the Seal of the Court, shall be first recorded in the recorders office for the County in which the land shall be situated, upon which it is intended to create such lien or incumbrance, and the commencement of such lein or incumbrance, shall be dated, and take effect from the time of recording of such certified copy of judgment and not before.

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Bond, Benjamin

Passed the Senate
December 22^nd 1838
Ben: Bond scr^y[secretary]

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A Bill for an Act, relating to lien upon real Estate created by judgment of Courts.

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passed

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lay table.

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Engrossed.

1Ebenezer Peck introduced SB 24 in the Senate on December 17, 1838. The Senate passed the bill on December 22. On December 26, the House of Representatives referred the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary. The Committee on the Judiciary reported back the bill on December 31 with a substitute, in which the House concurred. The House subsequently tabled the bill.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia,IL: William Walters, 1838), 138, 143, 148-49; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL; William Walters, 1838), 73, 101, 104-105.