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Meanings of legal jointure in English

(Law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower.

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Examples for "jointure"
Examples for "jointure"
1
The rents only sufficed to pay the charges and the widow's jointure.
Esther Waters
2
The largest jointure moves her not, titles of honour cannot sway her.
Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
3
A jointure had to be paid Lady Shelley of £500 a year.
Mrs. Shelley
4
Medora, if Lizzie remembered rightly, had had no jointure or private fortune.
The Eustace Diamonds
5
But paying the Rani's jointure-thatwas a bitter pill, I grant you.
The Path to Honour