legal jointure

1. 1.

   (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower

   Synonymsjointure

   Broaderestate

   law

Questions about legal jointure

What does legal jointure mean?

legal jointure means "(law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower".

What is another word for legal jointure?

Close synonyms include jointure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is legal jointure a common word?

legal jointure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.