Illinois Compiled Statutes

735 ILCS 5/12-111 (2026)

When binding on personalty

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(735 ILCS 5/12-111) (from Ch. 110, par. 12-111)
    Sec. 12-111. When binding on personalty. No judgment shall bind the goods and chattels of the person against whom it is entered, until a certified copy thereof is delivered to the sheriff or other proper officer to be served; and for the better manifestation of the time, the sheriff or other officer shall, on receipt of such certified copy, indorse upon the back thereof the day of the month and year and hour when he or she received the same.
(Source: P.A. 82-280.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1993–1997 · leading case: Prior v. Farm Bureau Oil Co. (In Re Prior), 176 B.R. 485 (Bankr. S.D. Ill. 1995).
Prior v. Farm Bureau Oil Co. (In Re Prior), 176 B.R. 485 (Bankr. S.D. Ill. 1995). · cites it 2× “See 735 ILCS 5/12-111, 5/12-158 (1993). Farm Bureau had previously impounded all oil proceeds attributable to the debtor’s interests in these leases upon being served in the citation proceeding on June 11, 1993.”
In Re Johnson, 215 B.R. 381 (Bankr. N.D. Ill. 1997). “educed its claim against the Debtor to a pre-petition judgment, there is no evidence that it took any further steps to enforce that judgment by recording a memorandum thereof with the DuPage County Recorder of Deeds to create a judgment lien against any real estate interests the…”
Hurley v. Gaertner (In Re Hurley), 158 B.R. 115 (N.D. Ill. 1993). “Gaertner argues that Hurley also failed to comply with the alternative to the writ of execution provided for in Section 12-111 of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure (735 ILCS 5/12-111) (“section 12-111”). Under Section 12-111, notice to a judgment debtor is provided by…”
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