jointure

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A joining; a joint.
2. isim 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.

   “Then, Warwick, thus: our sister shall be Edward’s; / And now forthwith shall articles be drawn / Touching the jointure that your king must make, / Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.”

3. fiil To settle a jointure upon.

   “He never ſo much as ask’d me about my Fortune, or Eſtate; but aſſur'd me that vvhen vve came to Dublin he vvould Joynture me in 600l. a Year good Land; and that he vvould enter into a Deed of Settlement, or Contract here, for the Performance of it.”