Legal Definition and Related Resources of Jointure

A joint interest limited to husband and wife. A freehold estate in lands and tenements provided to the wife by the husband for her support after his death .

A Joint estate limited to both husband and wife. A competent livelihood of freehold for the wife, of lands and tenements, to take effect, in profit or possession, presently after the death of the husband, for the life of the wife at least. Jointures are regulated by the statute of 27 Hen. VIII. c. 10, commonly called the “Statute of Uses.” To make a good jointure, the following circumstances must concur, namely: It must take effect, in possession or profit, immediately from the death of the husband. It must be for the wife’s life, or for some greater estate. It must be limited to the wife herself, and not to any other person in trust for her. It must be made in satisfaction for the wife’s whole dower, and not of part of it only. The estate limited to the wife must be expressed or averred to be in satisfaction of her whole dower. It must be made before marriage. A jointure attended with all these circumstances is binding on the widow, and is a complete bar to the claim of dower, or, rather, it prevents its ever arising. But there are other modes of limiting an estate to a wife, which. Lord Coke says, are good jointures within the statute, provided the wife accepts of them after the death of the husband. She may, however, reject them, and claim her dower. Cruise, Dig. tit. 7; 2 Bl. Comm. 137. In its more enlarged sense, a jointure signifies a joint estate limited to both husband and wife, 2 Bl. Comm. 137. See 14 Viner, Abr, 540; Bac. Abr.; 2 Bouv. Inst., note 1761 et seq.; Washb. Real Prop.

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Concept of Jointure in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Jointure: A life estate for a wife which takes effect upon the death of her husband. Takes the place of dower, but must be agreed to by the wife and is not an automatic right such as dower.

Concept of Jointure in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Jointure: A life estate for a wife which takes effect upon the death of her husband. Takes the place of dower, but must be agreed to by the wife and is not an automatic right such as dower.

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Jointure

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late 14c., “act or fact of being joined,” from Old French jointure “a putting together,” from Latin iunctura “a joining, juncture” (see juncture). Specific legal sense is from mid-15c.: “estate or property settled on an intended husband and wife, meant as a provision for the latter.”

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