Illinois Compiled Statutes 735 Civil Procedure: Article XIII - Limitations

Part 1. Real Actions

• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-101
  Twenty years - Recovery of land. No person shall commence an action for the recovery of lands, nor make an entry thereon, unless within...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-102
  Breach of condition subsequent. No person shall commence an action for the recovery of lands, nor make an entry thereon, by reason of the...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-103
  Termination of estate upon limitation. No person shall commence an action for the recovery of lands, nor make an entry thereon, by reason of...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-104
  Under mortgage or lease. Nothing in Sections 13-102 and 13-103 of this Act affects the time for the enforcement of any right under or...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-105
  Twenty years - Computation. If such right or title first accrued to an ancestor or predecessor of the person who brings the action or...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-106
  Accrual of right of entry or to bring action. The right to make an entry or bring an action to recover land shall be...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-107
  Seven years with possession and record title. Actions brought for the recovery of any lands, tenements or hereditaments of which any person may be...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-108
  Right extended to heirs. The heirs, legatees and assigns of the person having such title and possession, shall have the same benefit of the...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-109
  Payment of taxes with color of title. Every person in the actual possession of lands or tenements, under claim and color of title, made...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-110
  Vacant land - Payment of taxes with color of title. Whenever a person having color of title, made in good faith, to vacant and unoccupied...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-111
  State and United States. Sections 13-109 and 13-110 of this Act shall not extend to lands or tenements owned by the United States or...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-112
  Minors and persons under legal disability. If, at the time when such right of entry or of action upon or for lands first accrues,...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-113
  Extension to heirs. If the person first entitled to make entry or bring such action dies during the continuance of any of the disabilities...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-114
  Seventy-five year limitation. No deed, will, estate, proof of heirship, plat, affidavit or other instrument or document, or any court proceeding, order or judgment,...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-115
  Foreclosure of mortgage. No person shall commence an action or make a sale to foreclose any mortgage or deed of trust in the nature...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-116
  Lien of mortgage, trust or vendor's lien. (a) The lien of every mortgage, trust deed in the nature of a mortgage, and vendor's lien,...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-117
  Limitation on mortgage. The lien of every mortgage or trust deed in the nature of a mortgage of record on July 1, 1915, where...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-118
  Forty year limitation on claims to real estate. No action based upon any claim arising or existing more than 40 years before the commencement...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-119
  Claim index. All claims filed in the office of the recorder as provided in Section 13-118 of this Act shall be recorded and indexed...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-120
  Limitation on sections. Sections 13-118 through 13-121 of this Act shall not be applied: 1. to bar any lessor or his or her successor...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-121
  Construction. Sections 13-118 through 13-121 of this Act shall be liberally construed to effect the legislative purpose of simplifying and facilitating land title transactions...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-122
  Posting of notice that right of access is by permission and subject to control of owner. No use of any land by any person...

Part 2. Personal Actions

• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-201
  Defamation - Privacy. Actions for slander, libel or for publication of matter violating the right of privacy, shall be commenced within one year next...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-202
  Personal injury - Penalty. Actions for damages for an injury to the person, or for false imprisonment, or malicious prosecution, or for a statutory penalty,...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-202.1
  No limitations on certain actions - Duties of Department of Corrections and State's Attorneys. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any action for damages...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-202.2
  Childhood sexual abuse. (a) In this Section: "Childhood sexual abuse" means an act of sexual abuse that occurs when the person abused is under 18...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-202.3
  For an action arising out of an injury caused by "sexual conduct" or "sexual penetration" as defined in Section 11-0.1 of the Criminal Code of...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-203
  Loss of consortium - Injury to person. Actions for damages for loss of consortium or other actions, including actions for the medical expenses of...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-203.1
  Loss of means of support or parental relationships. Actions for damages for loss of means of support or loss of parental or in loco...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-204
  Contribution and indemnity. (a) In instances where no underlying action seeking recovery for injury to or death of a person or injury or damage...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-205
  Five year limitation. Except as provided in Section 2-725 of the "Uniform Commercial Code", approved July 31, 1961, as amended, and Section 11-13 of...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-206
  Ten year limitation. Except as provided in Section 2-725 of the "Uniform Commercial Code", actions on bonds, promissory notes, bills of exchange, written leases, written...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-207
  Counterclaim or set-off. A defendant may plead a set-off or counterclaim barred by the statute of limitation, while held and owned by him or...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-208
  Absence from State. (a) If, when the cause of action accrues against a person, he or she is out of the state, the action...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-209
  Death of party. (a) If a person entitled to bring an action dies before the expiration of the time limited for the commencement thereof,...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-210
  Foreign limitation. When a cause of action has arisen in a state or territory out of this State, or in a foreign country, and,...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-211
  Minors and persons under legal disability. (a) If the person entitled to bring an action, specified in Sections 13-201 through 13-210 of this Code, at...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-212
  Physician or hospital. (a) Except as provided in Section 13-215 of this Act, no action for damages for injury or death against any physician, dentist,...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-213
  Product liability; statute of repose. (a) As used in this Section, the term: (1) "Alteration, modification or change" or "altered, modified, or changed" means...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-214
  Construction - design management and supervision. As used in this Section "person" means any individual, any business or legal entity, or any body politic....
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-214.1
  Action for damages involving criminal acts. Actions for damages for an injury described in Section 13-202 or Section 13-203 arising out of first degree...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-214.2
  (a) Actions based upon tort, contract or otherwise against any person, partnership or corporation registered pursuant to the Illinois Public Accounting Act, as amended,...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-214.3
  Attorneys. (a) In this Section: "attorney" includes (i) an individual attorney, together with his or her employees who are attorneys, (ii) a professional partnership of...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-214.4
  Actions against insurance producers, limited insurance representatives, and registered firms. All causes of action brought by any person or entity under any statute or...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-215
  Fraudulent concealment. If a person liable to an action fraudulently conceals the cause of such action from the knowledge of the person entitled thereto,...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-216
  Stay of action. When the commencement of an action is stayed by injunction, order of a court, or statutory prohibition, the time of the...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-217
  Reversal or dismissal. In the actions specified in Article XIII of this Act or any other act or contract where the time for commencing...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-218
  Revival of judgment. A petition to revive a judgment, as provided by Section 2-1601 of this Code, may be filed no later than 20 years...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-219
  Railroads and carriers. (a) All actions by railroads, motor carriers, common carriers by water, common carriers by air, the Railway Express Agency or freight...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-220
  Fraud by decedents. Actions under Sections 10 to 14, both inclusive, of "An Act to revise the law in relation to frauds and perjuries",...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-221
  Contract to make will. An action against the representative, heirs and legatees of a deceased person to enforce a contract to make a will,...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-222
  Action against land surveyor. (a) Registered land surveyor. No action may be brought against a registered land surveyor to recover damages for negligence, errors...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-223
  Inter vivos trusts. An action to set aside or contest the validity of a revocable inter vivos trust agreement or declaration of trust to...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-224
  Recovery in Tax Actions. In any action against the State to recover taxes imposed pursuant to Section 2 of the Messages Tax Act, Section...
• Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. - 735 ILCS 5, Section 13-225
  Predator accountability. (a) In this Section, "sex trade" and "victim of the sex trade" have the meanings ascribed to them in Section 10 of the...

Last modified: February 18, 2015