c Popham v BAMFIELD Lord keeper Ch I holt master of the roll c I Trevor I  Powell ante case S c lev raym they all deliver their opinion seriatim that it  be but a estate for life and the reason they go upon be because it be express  devise for life and be so shall never be enlarge by implication although by  express word it may as where a estate be devise to a for life the remainder to  he heir of his body this be a estatetail by express words Shelleys case Rep  and here do not appear any intent of the testator to make it a estatetail for  the word if he die without heir male of his body be applicable to what go  before that be to say such heir male as he have limit it to before for none  can take as first or second son but such as be heir male at the time he be to  take so that in common parlance it be a entail and be so call and the word be  true in a relative sense but not in a absolute sense and as for what be allege  that a posthumous son will by this mean be defeat see c p note admit that to  be so the inconvenience will be great the other way for if it be construe to  be a estatetail it will be in the power of the first son when he come into  possession to bar all the remainder by a recovery capel case Rep and though it  be call a estatetail in the codicil that will not make it so in case it be not  so before for a false recital will never alter a estate from what it be before  see however that a recital of a gift of personalty in a will may amount to a  gift though nothing have in fact be before give smith v Fitzgerald Ves and Bea  and the Lord keeper and master of the roll be of opinion that the posthumous  son can not be defeat in this case because the legal estate in the trustee  will support it freeman and as to Sandays case   where it be say a estatetail  be create by implication there be no express estate limit for life but limit  general which though of itself it will have carry only a estate for life yet  it be capable of be enlarge by implication and holt say the case of Lisle and  grey which be say in Jones to be reverse in the exchequer Chamber be not  reverse but affirm and so it appear upon the roll which he have cause to be  search the Lord keeper say where a estate be create by implication it must be  a necessary implication as a devise to the heir after the death of the wife  the wife take a estate for life by implication ante c p note c p note of  necessity because it be plain his intent be that the heir shall not have it  till after her death they all agree that Alexander Popham have only a estate  for life and not a estatetail See Colles p c where we find that a petition by  the trustee of Mr Bamfield to the house of lord for leave to proceed on a bill  of review and reversal of the ground of a previous decree in this cause be  dismiss Reg lib a fol the Lord keeper and the assistant judge be unanimous of  opinion that the defendant Popham have only a estate for life in the premise  in question and therefore overrule a demurrer put in by the say defendant  freeman er p