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765 ILCS 5/1

(765 ILCS 5/1) (from Ch. 30, par. 1)

Sec. 1.

Livery of seizin shall in no case be necessary for the
conveyance of real property; but every deed, mortgage or other
conveyance in writing, not procured by duress, and signed by the party
making the same, the maker or makers being of full age and sound mind, shall
be sufficient, without livery of seizin, for the
giving, granting, selling, mortgaging, leasing or otherwise conveying or
transferring any lands, tenements or hereditaments in this state, so as,
to all intents and purposes, absolutely and fully to vest in every
donee, grantee, bargainee, mortgagee, lessee or purchaser, all such
estate or estates as shall be specified in any such deed, mortgage,
lease or other conveyance. Nothing herein contained shall be so
construed as to divest or defeat the older or better estate or right of
any person or persons, not party to any such deed, mortgage, lease, or
other conveyance.

(Source: P.A. 80-660.)