Illinois Code § 10
Illinois Code § 10. Reproduced from the official Illinois Compiled Statutes, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 10.
All wills, limitations, dispositions or appointments of, or concerning any lands and tenements, or of any rent, profit, term or charge, out of the same, whereof any person, at the time of his or her decease, shall own in fee simple, in possession in reversion, or remainder, or have power to dispose of the same by his or her last will, shall be deemed and taken (only as against the person, his or her heirs, successors, executors, administrators or assigns, and every one of them, whose debts, actions, claims, estates and interests, by such will, limitation, disposition or appointment as above stated, shall, or might be in any wise disturbed, hindered, delayed or defrauded,) to be fraudulent, void and of no effect, any pretense, color, feigned or presumed consideration, or any other matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding. (Source: P.A. 84-551.)
Source: official Illinois text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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- Citation: Illinois Compiled Statutes § 10
- Jurisdiction: Illinois
- Code: Illinois Compiled Statutes
- Text: transcribed from the official source (verify below)
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