jointure

How To Use jointure In A Sentence

• Her lord has made her sole executrix, and added what little douceurs he could to her jointure, which is but The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
• Through an unusual jointure, announced in October, it became the dance programming division of the Trust.
• “There was one circumstance which, though he did not appeal to it, had much weight with me in his favour, and that was the word jointure in the taylor’s letter, whereas my aunt never had been married, and this Mr. Fitzpatrick well knew. — The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• Danvers would not be very sorry to hear of the death of this charming creature, as he might then dispose of the little jointured estate in Derbyshire. Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
• I wonder if she will have the use of her jointure, now that Sir Thomas is dead. Secrets of the Tudor Court
• There was one circumstance which, though he did not appeal to it, had much weight with me in his favour, and that was the word jointure in the taylor's letter, whereas my aunt never had been married, and this History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• Most of the great families in England have a secondary residence, which is called a jointure-house: let the new house be of that kind. ' Life of Johnson
• Collyweston in Northamptonshire had been the principal seat of Elizabeth's grandmother, Margaret Beaufort and then had passed down to Henry Fitzroy, duke of Richmond and, briefly, to Anne Boleyn as part of her jointure. 74 It was very likely in disrepair by the time Elizabeth received it since there was no socially or politically significant person living in it since Richmond's death in 1536. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
• Because understanding what ``jointures' meant reversed the polarity of the whole poem. THE CALLIGRAPHER
• The unmarried and widows often engaged in litigation related to marriage settlements, jointures, uses and trusts.