Illinois Compiled Statutes 705 ILCS 85 — Court Records Restoration Act.

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Short title. This Act may be cited as the Court Records Restoration Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

Whenever the record of any judgment or order, or other proceeding, of any judicial court of this State, or any part of the record of any judicial proceeding, shall have been or shall hereafter be lost or destroyed, any party or person interested therein may, on application by petition, in writing, under oath, to such c…

That whenever the loss or destruction of any such record or part thereof shall have happened, or shall hereafter happen, and such defect cannot be supplied, as provided in the next preceding section, any party or person interested therein may make a written application to the court to which such record belonged, verifi…

In case of the destruction by fire or otherwise of the records, or any part thereof, of any circuit court, the judge of any such court may proceed upon his own motion, or upon application in writing of any party in interest, to restore the records, papers and proceedings of this court relating to the estate of deceased…

That in all causes which have been removed, or shall hereafter be removed, to a reviewing court of this State, a duly certified copy of the record of such cause remaining in the reviewing court may be filed in the court from which such cause was removed, on motion of any party or person or persons claiming to be intere…