Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    Held: A devise by A to B and his children or issue, if I had no issue at the time of the devise, created an estate-tail, but if he had, B and his children took joint estates for life. See 6 Coke, 16b.