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jointure

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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might have married the aunt before this, whose jointure you say is
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
The Baronet owed his son a sum of money out of the jointure of his mother, which he did not find it convenient to pay; indeed he had an almost invincible repugnance to paying anybody, and could only be brought by force to discharge his debts.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
Well, the jointure may comfort him; and perhaps, between friends, he began to tremble for his credit and his lungs in the Baron, and was not sorry to withdraw; and to make you amends, Yates, I think we must raise a little theatre at Mansfield, and ask you to be our manager.
Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context
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