(5 ILCS 70/4) (from Ch. 1, par. 1103)
Sec. 4.
No new law shall be construed to repeal a former law, whether
such former law is expressly repealed or not, as to any offense
committed against the former law, or as to any act done, any penalty,
forfeiture or punishment incurred, or any right accrued, or claim
arising under the former law, or in any way whatever to affect any such
offense or act so committed or done, or any penalty, forfeiture or
punishment so incurred, or any right accrued, or claim arising before
the new law takes effect, save only that the proceedings thereafter
shall conform, so far as practicable, to the laws in force at the time
of such proceeding. If any penalty, forfeiture or punishment be
mitigated by any provisions of a new law, such provision may, by the
consent of the party affected, be applied to any judgment pronounced
after the new law takes effect. This section shall extend to all
repeals, either by express words or by implication, whether the repeal
is in the act making any new provision upon the same subject or in any
other act.
(Source: R.S. 1874, p. 1011.)
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