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Meanings of jointure in inglês
(Law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower.
Usage of jointure in inglês
1
The rents only sufficed to pay the charges and the widow's jointure.
2
The largest jointure moves her not, titles of honour cannot sway her.
3
A jointure had to be paid Lady Shelley of £500 a year.
4
Medora, if Lizzie remembered rightly, had had no jointure or private fortune.
5
But paying the Rani's jointure-thatwas a bitter pill, I grant you.
6
The Castle of Montargis is my jointure; at Orleans there is no house.
7
He felt the jointure with his feet-somerenewal or stoppage of the timber.
8
His widow lives, in complete seclusion, at her jointure-house near Twickenham.
9
She left L800 a year jointure, a son to inherit the whole estate.
10
Sir Edward and Lady Elizabeth went to law about her jointure.
11
You'll have to give up half your jointure for your life.
12
His mother, indeed, who lived till ninety, had a jointure of six hundred.
13
Then there is her jointure, something like ten thousand a year.
14
But it will make up what Papa spent of your jointure.
15
She must have a handsome jointure; but what are your grounds?'
16
She was an Irish peer's widow, with a jointure of L2000 a year.
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