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sell such intoxicating liquors to be drank in any adjoining room, building or premises, or other place of public resort connected with said building: Provided, that no person shall be granted a license to sell or give away intoxicating liquors, without first giving a bond to the municipality or authority authorized by law to grant license (which bond shall run in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, and be in the penal sum of three thousand dollars, with at least two good and sufficient securities, who shall be freeholders), conditioned that they will pay all damages to any person or persons which may be inflicted upon them, either in person or property, or means of support, by reason of the person so obtaining a license, selling or giving away intoxicating liquors; and such bond may be sued and recovered upon for the use of any person or persons, or their legal representatives, who may be injured by reason of the selling intoxicating liquors by the person or his agent so obtaining the license.

§ 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, by Minors. agent or otherwise, to sell intoxicating liquors to minors, unless upon the written order of their parents, guardians or family physicians, or to persons intoxicated, or who are in the habit of getting intoxicated.

Common nui

§ 3. All places where intoxicating liquors are sold in violation of this act shall be taken, held and declared to be sauces. common nuisances; and all rooms, taverns, eating houses, bazars, restaurants, drug stores, groceries, coffee houses, cellars, or other places of public resort where intoxicating liquors are sold in violation of this act, shall be shut up and abated as public nuisances, upon conviction of the keeper thereof, who shall be punished as hereinafter provided.

toxication.

4. Every person who shall, by the sale of intoxicating Liable for inliquors, with or without a license, cause the intoxication of any other person, shall be liable for and compelled to pay a reasonable compensation to any person who may take charge. of and provide for such intoxicated person, and two dollars per day in addition thereto for every day such intoxicated person shall be kept in consequence of such intoxication; which sums may be recovered in an action of debt before any court having competent jurisdiction.

5. Every husband, wife, child, parent, guardian, em Right of action. ployer or other person, who shall be injured in person or property, or means of support, by any intoxicated person, or in consequence of the intoxication, habitual or otherwise, of any person, shall have a right of action in his or her own name, severally or jointly, against any person or persons who shall, by selling or giving intoxicating liquors, have caused the intoxication, in whole or in part, of such person or persons; and any person or persons owning, renting, leasing or permitting the occupation of any building

Damages.

Penalty for violation.

or premises, and having knowledge that intoxicating liquors are to be sold therein, or who, having leased the same for other purposes, shall knowingly permit therein the sale of any intoxicating liquors that have caused, in whole or in part, the intoxication of any person, shall be liable, severally or jointly, with the person or persons selling or giving intoxicating liquors aforesaid, for all damages sustained, and for exemplary damages; and a married woman shall have the same right to bring suits and to control the same and the amount recovered, as a feme sole; and all damages recovered by a minor under this act, shall be paid either to such minor, or to his or her parent, guardian or next friend, as the court shall direct; and the unlawful sale, or giving away of intoxicating liquors, shall work a forfeiture of all rights of the lessee or tenant, under any lease or contract of rent upon the premises where such unlawful sale or giving away shall take place; and all suits for damages under this act may be by any appropriate action in any of the courts of this state having competent jurisdiction.

§ 6. For every violation of the provisions of the first and second sections of this act, every person so offending shall forfeit and pay a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in the jail of the county not less than ten nor more than thirty days, and pay the costs of prosecution; and for every violation of the provisions of the third section of this act, every person convicted as the keeper of any of the places therein declared to be nuisances, shall forfeit and pay a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in the jail of the county for not less than twenty nor more than fifty days, and pay the costs of prosecution; and such place or places, so kept by such person or persons so convicted, shall be shut up and abated upon the order of the court before whom such conviction may be had, until such time as such person or persons keeping such places shall give bond and security, to be approved by said court, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, payable to the state of Illinois, conditioned that he, she or they will not sell intoxicating liquors contrary to the laws of this state, and will pay all fines, costs and damages assessed against such keeper or keepers, for any violation thereof; and in case of a forfeiture of such bond, suit may be brought thereon, for the use of any person interested, or for the use of the county, in case of a fine or costs due such county: Provi ded, that the penalties in the nature of fines, mentioned in this section, may be enforced separately from the imprisonment, before justices of the peace or police magistrates. Unlawful sell- $ 7. The giving away of intoxicating liquors, or other shift or device to evade the provisions of this act, shall be deemed and held to be an unlawful selling, within the provisions of this act.

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LIQUORS-SALE OF.

fines and dam

§ 8. For the payment of all fines, costs and damages Liability for assessed against any person or persons, in consequence of ages. the sale of intoxicating liquors, as provided in section five of this act, the real estate and personal property of such person or persons, of every kind, except such as may be exempt under the homestead laws of this state, or such as may be exempt from levy and sale upon judgment and execution, shall be liable; and such fines, costs and damages shall be a lien upon such real estate until paid; and in case any person or persons shall rent or lease to another or others, any building or premises to be used or occupied, in whole or in part, for the sale of intoxicating liquors, or shall permit the same to be so used or occupied, such building or premises so used or occupied shall be held liable for and may be sold to pay all fines, costs and damages assessed against any person or persons occupying such building or premises. Proceedings may be had to subject the same to the payment of any such fine and costs assessed or judg ment recovered, which remain unpaid, or any part thereof, either before or after execution shall issue against the property of the person or persons against whom such fine and costs or judgment shall have been adjudged or assessed; and when execution shall issue against the property so leased or rented, the officer shall proceed to satisfy said execution out of the building or premises so leased or occupied as aforesaid; and in case such building or premises belong to a minor, insane person or idiot, the guardian of such minor, insane person or idiot, and his or her real and personal property, shall be held liable instead of such minor, insane person or idiot, and his or her property shall be subject to all the provisions of this section relating to the collection of fines, costs and damages.

§ 9. The penalty and imprisonment mentioned in the Indictment. sixth section of this act may be enforced by indictment in any court of record having criminal jurisdiction; and all pecuniary fines or penalties provided for in any of the sections of this act (except the fourth and fifth) may be enforced and prosecuted for, before any justice of the peace of the proper county, in an action of debt, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, as plaintiff; and in case of conviction the offender shall stand committed to the common jail until the judgment and costs are fully paid, and the magistrate or court in which the conviction is had shall issue a writ of capias ad satisfaciendum therefor; and justices of the peace shall also have jurisdiction of all actions arising under the fourth and fifth sections of this act, when the amount in controversy does not exceed two hundred dollars, such actions to be prosecuted in the name or the party injured or entitled to the debt or damages pro-nd

ded for in said fourth and fifth sections.

perise or

Payment of

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Prosecution under this act.

§ 10. In all prosecutions under this act, by indictment or otherwise, it shall not be necessary to state the kind of liquor sold, or to describe the place where sold; and for any violation of the third section of this act it shall not be necessary to state the name of the person to whom sold; and in all cases the person or persons to whom intoxicating liquors shall be sold in violation of this act, shall be competent witnesses to prove such fact, or any other tending

thereto.

APPROVED January 13, 1872.

LIMITATIONS.

In force July 1, 1872.

AN ACT in regard to limitations.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That no Action for re- person shall commence an action for the recovery of lands, every of lands. nor make an entry thereon, unless within twenty years after the right to bring such action or make such entry first accrued, or within twenty years after he or those from, by, or under whom he claims, have been seized or possessed of the premises, except as hereinafter provided.

Time--how

computed.

2. If such right or title first accrued to an ancestor or predecessor of the person who brings the action or makes the entry, or to any person from, by, or under whom he claims, the twenty years shall be computed from the time when the right or title so first accrued.

Time when ac- § 3. The right to make an entry or bring an action to

tion accrued.

ing.

recover land shall be deemed to have first accrued at the tines respectively hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:

First-When any person is disseized, his right of entry or of action shall be deemed to have accrued at the time of such clisseizin.

Second-When he claims as heir or devisee of one who died seized, his right shall be deemed to have accrued at the time of such death, unless there is a tenancy by the curtesy or other estate intervening after the death of such ancestor or devisor; in which case his right shall be deemed to accrue when such intermediate estate expires, or when it Vould have expired by its own imitations.

Unlawful sell- Third-When there is arch an intermediate estate, and in sother cases when e party claims by force of any redeider or reveon, his right, so far as it is affected by the visition herein prescribed, shall be deemed to accrue when

the intermediate or precedent estate would have expired by its own limitation, notwithstanding any forfeiture thereof for which he might have entered at an earlier time.

Fourth-The preceding clause shall not prevent a person from entering when entitled to do so by reason of any forfeiture or breach of condition; but if he claims under such a title, his right shall be deemed to have accrued when the forfeiture was incurred or the condition was broken.

Fifth-In all cases not otherwise specially provided for the right shall be deemed to have accrued when the claimant, or the person under whom he claims, first became entitled to the possession of the premises under the title upon which the entry or the action is founded.

Action for recovery of lands

4. Actions brought for the recovery of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments of which any person may be pos- in possession. sessed by actual residence thereon for seven successive years, having a connected title in law or equity, deducible of record, from this state or the United States, or from any public officer or other person authorized by the laws of this state to sell such land for the non-payment of taxes, or from any sheriff, marshal or other person authorized to sell such land on execution, or under any order, judgment or decree of any court of record, shall be brought within seven years next after possession being taken, as aforesaid; but when the possessor shall acquire such title after taking such possession, the limitation shall begin to run from the time of acquiring title.

and assigns.

5. The heirs, devisees and assigns of the person hav- Heirs, devisces ing such title and possession, shall have the same benefit of the preceding section, as the person from whom the possession is derived.

§ 6. Every person in the actual possession of lands or tenements, under claim and color of title, made in good faith, and who shall, for seven successive years, continue in such possession, and shall also, during said time, pay all taxes legally assessed on such lands or tenements, shall be held and adjudged to be the legal owner of said lands or tenements, to the extent and according to the purport of his or her paper title. All persons holding under such possession, by purchase, devise or descent, before said seven years shall have expired, and who shall continue such possession, and continue to pay the taxes as aforesaid, so as to complete the possession and payment of taxes for the term aforesaid, shall be entitled to the benefit of this section.

§ 7. Whenever a person having color of title, made in good faith, to vacant and unoccupied land, shall pay all taxes legally assessed thereon for seven successive years, he or she shall be deemed and adjudged to be the legal owner of said vacant and unoccupied land, to the extent and according to the purport of his or her paper title. All persons holding under such tax-payer, by purchase, devise or

Possession for

seven years.

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