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735 ILCS 5/12-651 (2026)

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(735 ILCS 5/12-651) (from Ch. 110, par. 12-651)
    Sec. 12-651. Definition. As used in Sections 12-650 through 12-657, "foreign judgment" means any judgment, decree, or order of a court of the United States or of any other court which is entitled to full faith and credit in this State.
(Source: P.A. 87-358; 87-895.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1996–2026 · leading case: CE Design Ltd v. Healthcraft Prods., Inc., 2017 IL App (1st) 143000 (Ill. App. Ct. 2017).
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CE Design Ltd v. Healthcraft Prods., Inc., 2017 IL App (1st) 143000 (Ill. App. Ct. 2017). “” 735 ILCS 5/12-651 (West 2008). ¶ 21 “The Recognition Act serves the purpose only of allowing [an Illinois] court a means to recognize a foreign country’s judgment.”
Stephan v. Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc., 948 F. Supp. 765 (N.D. Ill. 1996). “Rocky Mountain-Illinois and Lawrence continued to ignore the Colorado Action judgment (which thus became final and appealable) until Rocky Mountain filed it in the Circuit Court of Cook County under the Illinois Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (735 ILCS 5/12-651 and…”
CE Design Ltd. v. Healthcraft Prods., Inc., 2017 IL App (1st) 143000 (Ill. App. Ct. 2017). “” 735 ILCS 5/12-651 (West 2008). ¶ 21 “The Recognition Act serves the purpose only of allowing [an Illinois] court a means to recognize a foreign country’s judgment.”
Ekambi v. Njamfa, 2025 IL App (1st) 250630-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2025). · cites it 2× “” 735 ILCS 5/12-651 (West 2020). A judgment filed or registered under the Enforcement Act “shall be construed to be an original Illinois judgment from the date it is filed *** and for purposes of enforcement and revival, shall be treated in exactly the same manner as an Illinois…”
Chu v. Nanna, 2026 IL App (5th) 250886-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2026). · cites it 2× “” 735 ILCS 5/12-651 (West 2024). Nonetheless, we agree with Nanna that the Foreign Judgments Act itself does not include judgments of foreign countries within its definition of “foreign judgments.”
Apollo Real Est. Inv. Fund v. Gelber (Ill. App. Ct. 2009). “The Enforcement Act governs enforcement of foreign judgments of a court of the United States or of any other court that is entitled to full faith and credit in Illinois (735 ILCS 5/12-651 (West 2002)).”
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