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765 ILCS 5/2

(765 ILCS 5/2) (from Ch. 30, par. 2)

Sec. 2.

Every estate, gift, grant, deed, mortgage, lease,
release, or confirmation of lands, tenements, rents, services or
hereditaments made or had, or hereafter to be made or had, by any person
or persons, being of full age and sound mind, and not procured
by duress, to any person or persons, and all recoveries, judgments and enforcements
had or made, or to be had or made, shall be good and
effectual to him, her or them to whom it is or shall be so made, had or
given, and to all others, to his, her or their use, against the judgment
debtor, seller, donor, grantor, mortgagor, lessor, releasor, or
confirmor, and against his, her or their heirs, claiming the same only
as heir or heirs, and each of them, and against all others having or
claiming any title or interest in the same, only to the use of the same
judgment debtor, seller, donor, grantor, mortgagor, lessor,
releasor or confirmor, or his, her or their heirs, at the time of
the judgment, enforcement, bargain, sale, mortgage, covenant, lease,
release, gift or grant made.

(Source: P.A. 84-546.)