Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 620 ILCS 5/58

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
     In case of appeal from any rule, ruling, regulation, order or decision of the Department, a transcript of such testimony, together with all exhibits or copies thereof introduced and all information secured by the Department on its own initiative and considered by it in rendering its order or decision (and required by the laws of this State pertaining to aeronautics to be made a part of its records), and of the pleadings, records and proceedings in the case, shall constitute the record of the Department: provided, that on appeal from an order or decision of the Department, the person, municipality or other political subdivision taking the appeal and the Department may stipulate that a certain question or certain questions alone and a specified portion only of the evidence shall be certified to the court for its judgment, whereupon such stipulation and the question or questions and the evidence therein specified shall constitute the record on appeal.