Jointure in Europe
Definition of Jointure
A provision made by a husband for the support of his wife after his death. Originally an estate in joint tenancy of a husband and wife, granted to them before marriage, as provision for the wife.
A legal jointure was ” a competent livelihood of freehold for the wife of lands or tenements, etc., to take effect presently in possession or profit after the decease of her husband for the life of the wife at the least ” (Coke).
An equitable jointure is a rentcharge or annuity payable by the trustees of a marriage settlement to the wife for her life if she should survive her husband, the rentcharge or annuity being generally secured by powers of distress and entry, and by the limitation of the settled lands to trustees for a long term of years. See Alcyn v. Belch ier
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