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Significados de legal jointure en inglés

(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