Associations to the word «Jointure»
Noun
- Dowager
- Dowry
- Widow
- Countess
- Estate
- Assurance
- Manor
- Settle
- Frances
- Debt
- Viscount
- Settling
- Fortune
- Eleanor
- Pound
- Settlement
- Payment
- Marriage
- Margaret
- Husband
- Elizabeth
- Lady
- Wife
- Land
- Eldest
- Norfolk
- Portion
- Castle
- Provision
- Property
- Daughter
- Younger
- Earl
- Queen
- Sir
- Money
- Anne
- Borough
- Raise
- Hundred
- Thomas
- Mother
- Sale
- Son
- Income
- Uncle
- Death
- Will
- Mary
- Make
- Lord
- Henry
- Say
- Out
- House
- Claim
- Child
- Township
- Duke
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Wiktionary
JOINTURE, noun. (obsolete) A joining; a joint.
JOINTURE, 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.
JOINTURE, verb. (transitive) To settle a jointure upon.
Dictionary definition
JOINTURE, noun. (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower.
JOINTURE, noun. The act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays".
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.