Illinois Statutes Chapter 765. Property § 350/1. Abolition of worthier title and of rule that grantor cannot create limitation in favor of own heirs

§ 1. Where a deed, will or other instrument purports to create any 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.