Prairie Production Credit Ass'n v. Bianucci

PRESIDING JUSTICE GREEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Section 12 — 101 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Code) states that “[a] judgment is not a lien on real estate for longer than 7 years from the time it is entered or revived” (emphasis added) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 110, par. 12—101). At common law, the method for reviving judgments was through a proceeding in scire facias (see Smith v. Carlson (1956), 8 Ill. 2d 74, 132 N.E.2d 513). Section 2-1601 of the Code abolished that procedure and states that relief formerly obtained in such a proceeding may be granted through “a petition…