Definitionn. (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower
Last update: September 20, 2015
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A widow has a dower interest in one-third of her husband's real estate unless barred by a jointure or an agreement. [Please select]
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She was a very beautiful woman, with a large jointure, and she was obviously in love with him. [Please select]
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She seems to have some money, and she told me that she counted on retaining her jointure. [Please select]
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I hope that, to get to the kingdom of heaven, Through a needle's eye he had not to pass; I wish him well, for the jointure given To my Lady of Carabas. [Please select]
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A younger son, he had, at his mother's death, when he was three and twenty, come in for the small estate at Crawley, which had been her jointure. [Please select]
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