Illinois Compiled Statutes 815 ILCS 170 — Tender Act.

Short title

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

That when any note, bond, bill or other instrument in writing is for the payment or delivery of personal property other than money, and no particular place is specified therein for such payment or delivery, the maker may tender such personal property on the day of payment or delivery, at the place where the obligee or…

A legal tender of any such personal property shall discharge the maker of any such instrument from all liability thereon; and the property thus tendered shall be vested in the legal holder of the instrument, and he may maintain an action for the recovery thereof, or for damages if the possession be subsequently illegal…

In all cases when a tender shall be made and full payment be offered, by discount or otherwise, as the party by contract or agreement ought to do, and the party to whom such tender shall be made doth refuse the same, and yet afterwards will sue for the debt or goods so tendered, the plaintiff shall not recover any cost…

A tender may also be made after an action is brought upon any contract, of the whole sum due thereon, with the legal costs of suit incurred up to the time of tender

A tender may also be made after an action is brought upon any contract, of the whole sum due thereon, with the legal costs of suit incurred up to the time of tender. (Source: R.S. 1874, p. 1054.)

The tender last mentioned may be made either to the plaintiff or his attorney in the suit, and the defendant may avail himself of it in defense, in like manner as if it had been made before the commencement of the action, bringing into court, if the tender is not accepted, the amount so tendered for costs as well as fo…