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765 ILCS 1005/1

(765 ILCS 1005/1) (from Ch. 76, par. 1)

Sec. 1.

No estate in joint tenancy in any lands, tenements or
hereditaments, or in any parts thereof or interest therein, shall be held
or claimed under any grant, legacy or conveyance whatsoever heretofore or
hereafter made, other than to executors and trustees, unless the premises
therein mentioned shall expressly be thereby declared to pass not in
tenancy in common but in joint tenancy; and every such estate other than to
executors and trustees (unless otherwise expressly declared as aforesaid,
or unless, as to a devise or conveyance of homestead property, expressly
declared to pass to a husband and wife as tenants by
the entirety in the manner provided by Section 1c),
shall be deemed to be in tenancy in common and all conveyances heretofore
made, or which hereafter may be made, wherein the premises therein
mentioned were or shall be expressly declared to pass not in tenancy in
common but in joint tenancy, are hereby declared to have created an estate
in joint tenancy with the accompanying right of survivorship the same as it
existed prior to the passage of "An Act to amend Section 1 of an Act
entitled: 'An Act to revise the law in relation to joint rights and
obligations,' approved February 25, 1874, in force July 1, 1874," approved
June 26, 1917.

(Source: P.A. 86-966.)