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Significados de jointure en inglés

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The act of making or becoming a single unit.

unificación

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

Uso de jointure en inglés
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
6
The Castle of Montargis is my jointure; at Orleans there is no house.
Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 0...
7
He felt the jointure with his feet-somerenewal or stoppage of the timber.
Red Fleece
8
His widow lives, in complete seclusion, at her jointure-house near Twickenham.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06
9
She left L800 a year jointure, a son to inherit the whole estate.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 45: August/September 1666
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Sir Edward and Lady Elizabeth went to law about her jointure.
The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck: A Scandal of the XVIIth Centur...
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You'll have to give up half your jointure for your life.
The Eustace Diamonds
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His mother, indeed, who lived till ninety, had a jointure of six hundred.
Lives of the English Poets / Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, &c.
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Then there is her jointure, something like ten thousand a year.
Endymion
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But it will make up what Papa spent of your jointure.
In for a penny
15
She must have a handsome jointure; but what are your grounds?'
The Heir of Redclyffe
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She was an Irish peer's widow, with a jointure of L2000 a year.
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 01
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