The Proposed Illinois Civil Practice Act

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XCEPT for a few statutory changes, Illinois remains today one of the few jurisdictions in the United States retaining substantially the common law method of practice, together with most of its unwieldiness and technical limitations induced by blind pleadings and distinctions between forms of common law actions.The proposed act is intended as a sweeping revision of the civil practice now employed, and will repeal the entire present Practice Act, and, in addition, will replace the bulk of the existing Chancery Act.The proposed act does not apply to criminal proceedings.'Nor is it to affect proceedings which are regulated as to practice and procedure by special statutes.2It has been prepared with the four major fields of practice in mind, and the proper relations each should bear to the other.The four divisions are: (i) the institution of suit, (2) the preparation for trial, (3) the trial, and (4) review.The reforms suggested may be summarized generally as: a) the simplification of the.pr

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