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What (who) is jointure$41654$ - definition
jointure
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¦ noun Law an estate settled on a wife for the period during which she survives her husband.
Origin
ME (orig. denoting the joint holding of property): from OFr., from L. junctura (see juncture).
Jointure
·noun A joining; a joint.
II. Jointure ·vt To settle a jointure upon.
III. Jointure ·noun 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.
Jointure
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 determination or forfeiture of it': (Co.
