Lexic.us

Definition of Jointure

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

2. Noun. The act of making or becoming a single unit. "He looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"

Definition of Jointure

1. n. A joining; a joint.

2. v. t. To settle a jointure upon.

Definition of Jointure

1. Noun. (obsolete) A joining; a joint. ¹

2. Noun. (legal) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after her husband's death, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To settle a jointure upon. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jointure

1. to set aside property as an inheritance [v -TURED, -TURING, -TURES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jointure

jointress jointresses joints joints of auditory ossicles joints of ear bones joints of foot joints of free inferior limb joints of free lower limb joints of free superior limb joints of free upper limb

joints of hand joints of pectoral girdle joints of superior limb girdle jointure (current term) jointured jointureless jointures jointuress jointuresses jointuring

jointweed jointweeds jointworm jointworms joist joisted joisting joistless

Literary usage of Jointure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"The word "jointure," it is said, signifies an estate or property settled on a ... A jointure that bars dower is a provision made for the wife whereby an ..."

2. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"And chancery bars her dower by an estate in trust settled as a jointure. 5) 12. ... Jam. coverture, and afterwards takes a jointure of the same lands, ..."

3. A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property by Emory Washburn, Joseph Willard, Simon Greenleaf Croswell (1887)
"Requisites of a legal jointure. 8. When jointures are a bar of ... When wife must assent to jointure. 10. Effect of eviction from jointure. 11. ..."

4. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise (1827)
"jointure. CHAP. III. What will operate as a Bar or Satisfaction of a ... A Devise is no Bar to a jointure. 13. Unless so expressed, and then the Husband. 4. ..."

5. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"Vide Chancery, (3 V Л.) So there never shall be a survivorship, if the estate does not continue in jointure, at the death of him who dies first. Co. ..."

6. The Law of Baron and Femme: Of Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward, Master by Tapping Reeve, Amasa Junius Parker, Charles E. Baldwin (1882)
"Such elopement is no forfeiture of jointure, nor will it discharge the husband from a performance of marriage articles, (a) Elopement with an adulterer ..."

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