Jointure - What does it mean?
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(obsolete) A joining; a joint.
(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.
* Shakespeare
*1633 , John Donne,
*:Beasts do no jointures lose
*:Though they new lovers choose;
*:But we are made worse than those.
To settle a jointure upon.
jointure
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- The jointure that your king must make, / Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.