6-101.Bringing action.

Ejectment is one of the oldest actions in property law: a lawsuit to recover possession of land from someone who holds it without right. This section keeps that action alive in Illinois rather than replacing it with something new. It says ejectment may be brought "in the cases and manner heretofore accustomed," which ties the modern action back to the categories of claims and the kind of proof that have always supported an ejectment suit.

That backward-looking grant comes with a forward-looking limit. The action is "subject to the provisions contained in Article VI," so the sections that follow define how ejectment now works inside Illinois's civil procedure system: who can sue, what a complaint must say, how proof and verdicts work, and what a judgment does. Article VI supplies the modern scaffolding around an old cause of action.

Read together with the rest of the Article, this section functions as a bridge. It tells a court that ejectment remains available for the traditional wrongs it has always reached, while directing that court to Article VI, not to unwritten common-law practice, for the procedural rules that now control the suit.