(765 ILCS 45/9) (from Ch. 116, par. 13)
Sec. 9. All abstracts, copies, minutes and extracts, or copy thereof, if so bought as provided in this Act, shall thereupon be placed in the recorder's office of such county, to be copied or arranged in such form as the county board shall deem best for the public interest, and in case the originals have been lost or destroyed, or not in the power of the party asking to use the same on any trial or other proceeding, copies of the same or any part thereof, duly certified by the recorder of such county, shall be admissible as evidence in all the courts in this state. It shall be the duty of the recorder of to such county to furnish to any and all parties requesting it (upon being paid the charges herein provided for), certified copies of the same, or parts thereof; and for the purpose of repaying the cost of the same to the county, the county board may fix a compensation, to be paid to the county, in addition to the fees allowed by law to the recorder for transcribing the same. In all cases in which any abstracts, copies, minutes and extracts, or copies thereof, shall be received in evidence under any of the provisions of this Act, all deeds or other instruments of writing appearing thereby to have been executed by any person or persons, or in which they appear to have joined, shall (except as against any person or persons in the actual possession of the lands or lots described therein at the time of the destruction of the records of such county, claiming title thereto otherwise than under a sale for taxes or special assessments), be presumed to have been executed and acknowledged according to law; and all sales under powers, and all judgments, orders and legal proceedings, and all sales thereunder (sales for taxes and assessments, and judgments and proceedings for the enforcement of taxes and assessments excepted), shall be presumed to be regular and correct, except as against the person or persons in this section before mentioned, and any person alleging any defect or irregularity in any such conveyance, acknowledgment, sale, judgment, order or legal proceeding shall be held bound to prove the same, and any deed proved under the provisions of this Act purporting to be based upon the execution of any power or upon a judgment or order shall be prima facie evidence of the existence of such power, judgment or order: Provided, that nothing in this act contained shall impair the effect of such destroyed record as notice.
(Source: P.A. 83-358.)
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