{"data":{"id":"us-il/735-ilcs-5-15-1207","jurisdiction":"us-il","citation":"735 ILCS 5/15-1207","heading":"Mortgage.","body":"\"Mortgage\" means any consensual lien created by a written instrument which grants or retains an interest in real estate to secure a debt or other obligation. The term \"mortgage\" includes, without limitation:\n(a) mortgages securing \"reverse mortgage\" loans as authorized by subsection (a) of Section 5 of the Illinois Banking Act;\n(b) mortgages securing \"revolving credit\" loans as authorized by subsection (c) of Section 5 of the Illinois Banking Act, Section 1-6b of the Illinois Savings and Loan Act and Section 46 of the Illinois Credit Union Act;\n(c) every deed conveying real estate, although an absolute conveyance in its terms, which shall have been intended only as a security in the nature of a mortgage;\n(d) equitable mortgages; and\n(e) instruments which would have been deemed instruments in the nature of a mortgage prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1987.","path":["CHAPTER 735 CIVIL PROCEDURE","Code of Civil Procedure."],"source_url":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActID=2017\u0026ChapterID=56\u0026ChapAct=FullText\u0026Print=True","current_through":"at least Public Act 104-790","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:43Z","sha256":"ba430433ae9b8df0e8c18b8aa3ee4c595c141eff3831b8feff84c50d8e460156","source_id":"us-il","stale":false,"prev":"us-il/735-ilcs-5-15-1206","next":"us-il/735-ilcs-5-15-1208"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}