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(Law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower.
jointure
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jointure
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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
-
that
was
a bitter pill, I grant you.