Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 815 ILCS 5/2.26

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • 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.
  • 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
     “Mineral investment contract” means any investment, account, agreement, or contract whereby the investor’s profits are dependent upon the transportation, mining, minting, milling, flotation, refining, hallmarking, sale, resale, or repurchase of a metal or mineral, even if there is any potential for profit from fluctuation in the value of the metal or mineral, except any contract or agreement for the sale or purchase of a metal or mineral between merchants. Nothing herein shall affect the jurisdiction or authority of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under the Federal 1974 Act or the application of any provision thereof or regulation thereunder to any person or transaction subject thereto. The Secretary of State may, for the purposes of this Section by rules and regulations, define the term “between merchants”.