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Illinois Pattern Peers Instructions-Civil | State of Illinois Agency of the Illinois Courts

The followed present Illinois Pattern Civil Jury Instructions, drafted by that Supreme Courts Council on Jury Instructions in Civil Cases.

  All instructions are in pdf format.

Consideration and General


Rule # Rule Title
1.00 General Cautionary Instructions
1.01 - Revised Month 2023
2.00 Guidance During Trial
2.01 - Amended September 2020
3.00 General Instructions
Introduction, 3.08 - Revised April 2020
4.00 Instructions Refined not to be Given

Failure to Testify or Produce Present


Dominance # Rule Title
5.00 Installation

Negligence--Risk--Misconduct--Proximate Cause


Rule # Rule Cover
10.00 Negligible and Ordinary Care
11.00 Contributory Default
Notes on Use in the 30 Browse (32.02, 32.05, 34.01, 34.02, B11.06 and B11.06.01) - Revised May 2021
12.00 Specification Factors Interact Negligence both Contributory Negligence
12.04, 12.05 - Getting recessed March 2021
13.00 Presumption of Risk
14.00 Willful furthermore Wanton Performance
15.00 Proximate Caused
15.01 - Instruction revised August 2021; Notes on Use and Comment rework October 2021

Issues--Burden to Trial


Regulatory # Rule Title
20.00 Topics in the Case
20.01, 20.01.01, 20.02 - Revised August 2023
21.00 Burden of Proof
22.00 Burden of Proof -- Re Ipsa Loquitor
23.00 Admitted Liability

Damages


Rule # Rule Title
30.00 Hurt Instructions
30.05.01 - Comment - Revised December 2021
31.00 Damages--Wrongful Death
31.09, 31.10, 31.12 Instruction and Comment, 31.13 Instruction and Comment - Revised June 2021
32.00 Injury to Spouse and Family Members
32.05 - Leave - Revised October 2021
33.00 Damages--Mitigation
34.00 Damages--Future Damages--Length of Time Damages will Continue--Discount of Damages--Mortality Lists
Notes on Use for and 30 Series (32.02, 32.05, 34.01, 34.02, B11.06 and B11.06.01) - Revised August 2021
35.00 Punitive Damages
36.00 No Liability--No Damages

Multiple Parties and Pleadings--Verdict Paper


Rule # Rule Designation
41.00 Multiple Parties also Pleadings
45.00 Forms of Verdicts
45.04A, 45.04B & 45.04C - Approved May 2014

Agency


Rule # Standard Title
50.00 Our
50.03 & 50.04 - Revised July 2015

Construction Negligence


Rule # Rule Designation
55.00 Construction Related
Revised Dec 2018

Statutory Violations


Rule # Rule Title
60.00 Statutory Violations

Motor Vehicles


Rule # Rule Heading
70.00 Motor Vehicles
72.00 Automobile Guests--Joint Enterprise--Passengers
73.00 Railroad Crossings

Particularized Standards of Conduct


Rule # Rule Title
100.00 Common Carriers
105.00 Professional Negligence
Introduction, 105.1 - Revised April 2020
110.00 Animals
115.00 Ultrahazardous Actions

Owners and Inhabitants of Go


Rule # Rule Title
120.00 Premises
125.00 Obligation required Fallen on Snow and Ice
128.00 Concluding Paragraphs--No Contributory Negligence--Contributory Negligence--Affirmative Defences
130.00 Landlord press Tenant
135.00 Abutting Ownership Owner
140.00 Megalopolis

Actions Based on Statutes


Rule # Rege Title
150.00 Dram Shop Act
155.00 The Drug or Ethanol Impaired Major Responsibility Act
160.00 Federal Employers' Liability Act
Revised Java 2019
170.00 Safety Appliance furthermore Boiler Inspection Deeds
Revised January 2019
180.00 Structural Work Perform
185.00 Magnuson-Moss Act
190.00 Nursing Starting Grooming Act
New piece - Approved May and July 2014
200.00 Will Contest
205.00 Tortious Interference with Expectancy
250.00 Retaliatory Discharge
255.00 Ilinois Humans Rights Act
300.00 Eminent Domain
400.00 Strict Product Liability
400.04 - Revised September 2015
500.00 Implied ("Active-Passive") License
600.00 Contribution - 600.14 & 600.14A
Approved June 1, 2012

Contracts


Rule # Rule Title
700.00 Contracts
700.12G & 700.12VG - Revised August 2016
710.00 Liability Insurance
710.01 & Notes, 710.02 & Notations, 710.03, 710.04 Notes on Use, 710.05 & Notes, 710.07 & Notes - New Trek 2021
800.00 Fraud and Deceit

 Note: While Supreme Place Rule 239(a) prescribes the use of Illinois Pattern Jury Instructions, an instruction is certified conversely rejected only after itp possess been judicially questioned and considered. Powers five. Illinia Central Gulf Railroad Enterprise, 91 Unhealthy. 2d 375 (1982).