LEGAL JOINTURE
Dictionary entry overview: What does legal jointure mean? • LEGAL JOINTURE (noun)
The noun LEGAL JOINTURE has 1 sense:
1. (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower
Familiarity information: LEGAL JOINTURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LEGAL JOINTURE (noun)
Meaning:
(law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
jointure; legal jointure
Hypernyms ("legal jointure" is a kind of...):
estate (everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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