In this Act:
     (a) “Lender” means an individual or any other entity that advances funds secured by an interest in real property or secured by a collateral assignment of a beneficial interest in an Illinois land trust holding title to real property.
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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 765 ILCS 95/2

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.36
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

     (b) “Man-made underground mine” includes without limitation coal mines, clay mines, limestone mines, and fluorspar mines.
     (c) “Mine subsidence” means lateral or vertical ground movement that directly damages a structure and that results from the collapse of a man-made underground mine. Lateral or vertical ground movement caused by earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption, soil conditions, soil erosion, soil freezing and thawing, improperly compacted soil, construction defects, roots of trees and shrubs, or collapse of storm or sewer drains or rapid transit tunnels is not mine subsidence.
     (d) “Transfer” means:
        (1) a conveyance of an interest in real property by
    
deed or other instrument;
        (2) a lease of real property if the term, when
    
considering all options that may be exercised, exceeds 40 years;
        (3) an assignment, including transfer of the power of
    
direction, of more than 25% of the beneficial interest in an Illinois land trust;
        (4) a mortgage of real property; or
        (5) a collateral assignment of a beneficial interest
    
in an Illinois land trust.
    “Transfer” does not, however, include the following: deeds or trust documents that, without additional consideration, confirm, correct, modify, or supplement a deed or trust document previously recorded; tax deeds; deeds or trust documents of release of property that is security for a debt or other obligation; deeds of partition; conveyances occurring as a result of a foreclosure of a mortgage or other lien on real property; easements; or conveyances of interests in minerals, oil, or gas.
     (e) “Transferee” means a buyer, mortgagee, grantee, or lessee of real property, an assignee of a collateral assignment of a beneficial interest in an Illinois land trust, or an assignee of a more than 25% beneficial interest in an Illinois land trust.
     (f) “Transferor” means a seller, grantor, mortgagor, or lessor of real property, an assignor of a collateral assignment of the beneficial interest in an Illinois land trust, an assignor of a more than 25% beneficial interest in an Illinois land trust, or, in the case of a transfer by the trustee of an Illinois land trust, the owner of the beneficial interest in the land trust.
     (g) “Undermined” means that a man-made underground mine exists below all or part of the surface of real property.