Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 65 ILCS 5/9-2-22

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
     The commissioners shall return their report to the court in which the specified petition was filed, and file the report with the clerk thereof, with their certificate, duly verified, stating in substance that they have carefully examined the questions referred to in their report, and that in their opinion the amounts awarded for damages and value therein, and the respective amounts assessed against the property specially benefited, and also the apportionment of the cost of the improvement between the public and the property assessed, and the allowance for property theretofore dedicated, if any, are correct, equitable, and just. The return and filing of this report shall be deemed an application by the petitioner for judgment of condemnation of the property so to be taken or damaged, and for a confirmation of the assessment of benefit.
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