(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.)