(765 ILCS 5/3) (from Ch. 30, par. 3)

Sec. 3. Where any person or persons be the owner of, or at any time hereafter shall be the owner of and in any premises, lands, tenements, rents, services, reversions, remainders, or other hereditaments, to the use, confidence or trust of any other person or persons, or of any body politic, by reason of any bargain, sale, fine, recovery, covenant, contract, agreement, will or otherwise, by any manner of means whatsoever, in every such case all and every such person or persons, and bodies politic, that have or hereafter shall have any such use, confidence or trust, in fee simple, for term of life, or for years or otherwise, or any use, confidence or trust in remainder or reversion, shall from thenceforth be the owner of, deemed and adjudged in lawful ownership, estate and possession of and in the same premises, lands, tenements, rents, services, reversions, remainders and hereditaments, with their appurtenances, to all intents, constructions and purposes in law of and in such like estates, as they had or shall have in use, confidence or trust of or in the same; and that the estate, right, title and possession that was or shall be in such person or persons that were or hereafter shall be the owner of any lands, tenements or hereditaments, to the use, confidence or trust of any such person or persons, or of any body politic, be from henceforth clearly deemed and adjudged to be in him, her or them that have or hereafter shall have such use, confidence or trust, after such quality, manner, form and condition as they had before, in or to the use, confidence or trust that was or shall be in them.

(Source: P.A. 80-660.)