1) Act of uniting 2) Estate 3) French word used in English 4) Legal jointure 5) Legal terminology
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1) Coalescence 2) Coalescency 3) Reunification 4) Seam 5) Tribalisation 6) Tribalization
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Jointure is, in law, a provision for a wife after the death of her husband. As defined by Sir Edward Coke, it is `a competent livelihood of freehold for the wife, of lands or tenements, to take effect presently in possession or profit after the death of her husband for the life of the wife at least, if she herself be not the cause of determinatio....
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property granted to wife for use after husband's death
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• (v. t.) To settle a jointure upon. • (n.) A joining; a joint. • (n.) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband`s decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower.
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A means by which a groom's family prescribed a certain amount of land or possessions for his widow. It prevented her from claiming a third of whatever the husband owned at his death. ...
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Join'ture noun [ French
jointure a joint, orig., a joining, Latin
junctura , from
jungere to join. See
Join , and confer
Juncture .]
1. A joining; a joint. [ Obsolete]
2. (Law) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's...
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Join'ture transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Jointured ;
present participle & verbal noun Jointuring .] To settle a jointure upon.
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A competent livelihood of freehold for the wife, of lands and tenements; to take effect in profit or possession, presently after the death of the hushand, for the life of the wife at least. To make a good jointure, the following circumstances must concur: It must take effect, in possession or profit, immediately from the death of the hushand; I...
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archaic or obsolete terms > General: Dowry
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n] - (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower
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an arrangement usually concluded during marriage negotiations whereby a man set aside property to be used for the support of his wife after his death. Many women had to fight for their jointures after the deaths of their husbands. Mary Howard was said to hold a grudge against her father, the Duke of Norfolk, for failing to defend her jointure with ...
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an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death. · a joint tenancy limited in favor of a husband and wife.
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