Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 755 ILCS 5/22-6

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • 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.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • 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
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • United States: may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14
     Deed by foreign executor under will.) A deed executed under the power vested in a representative to whom letters of office were issued by any court of competent jurisdiction in any other state of the United States or the District of Columbia under a foreign will admitted to probate in that jurisdiction is evidence of title in the grantee to the same extent as was vested in the testator at the time of his death, if the will is admitted to probate in the court of the proper county in this State before delivery of the deed, unless letters of office on the estate of the decedent have been issued in this State and remain unrevoked.