Illinois Code § 765 ILCS 350/1

Where a deed, will or other instrument purports to create any
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present or future interest in real or personal property in the heirs of the
maker of the instrument, the heirs shall take, by purchase and not by
descent, the interest that the instrument purports to create. The doctrine
of worthier title and the rule of the common law that a grantor cannot
create a limitation in favor of his own heirs are abolished.

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