Wild's Case
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
RULE IN. A devise to B. and his children or issue, B. having no issue at the time of the devise, gives him an estate tail, which would become a life estate in the first taker under our statute.
194 111. 400; 221 111. 64.
But if he have issue at the time, B. and his children take joint estates for life.
6 Coke, 16b; White & T. Lead. Cas. Real Prop. 542, 581.
The rule was intended to enlarge the estate, and not to cut it down.
221 111. 64.