Usually means: Estate granted to wife's use.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word jointure:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. jointure: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. jointure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jointure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jointure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jointure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jointure, jointure: Wordnik
  7. jointure: Wiktionary
  8. jointure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. jointure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. jointure: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Jointure, jointure: Dictionary.com
  12. Jointure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Jointure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. jointure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. jointure: Rhymezone
  16. Jointure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. jointure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. jointure: Free Dictionary
  19. jointure: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. jointure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. jointure: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. jointure: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. jointure: Legal dictionary

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  1. jointure: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jointure)

noun:  (obsolete) A joining; a joint.
noun:  (law) 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.
verb:  (transitive) To settle a jointure upon.

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