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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 805 ILCS 120/6

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • 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
     Such single merged or consolidated corporation shall thereupon and thereafter possess all the rights, privileges, immunities, powers and franchises, as well of a public as a private nature, and all property, real, personal and mixed, and all debt due on whatever account, as well as for subscriptions to membership and all other things in action, of, or belonging to, each of said corporations, and be subject to all the restrictions, liabilities and duties of each of such corporations so merged or consolidated. All property rights, privileges, immunities, powers and franchises and all and every other interest shall thereafter be as effectually the property of the merged or consolidated corporation as they were of the several and respective merging or consolidating corporations. The title to any real estate, whether by deed or otherwise, under the laws of this state, vested in any of such corporations shall not revert or be in any way impaired by reason of such merger or consolidation.