An act concerning conveyances.

Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; that every estate in lands which shall hereafter be granted, conveyed, or devised to one, although other words heretofore necessary to transfer an estate of inheritance be not added, shall be deemed a fee simple estate of inheritance if a Less estate be not limited by express words or do not appear to have been granted, conveyed or devised by construction or operation of law.

2 When an estate hath been or shall be by any conveyance limited in remainder to the son or daughter or to the use of a son or daughter of any person to be begotten, such son or daughter born after the decease of his or her father, shall take the estate in the same manner as if he or she had been born in lifetime of the father, although no estate shall have been conveyed to support the contingent remainder after his death.