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Definition of Legal jointure
1. Noun. (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legal Jointure
Literary usage of Legal jointure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise, Henry Hopley White (1835)
"A legal jointure, as before noticed, must commence in possession and profit
immediately after the husband's decease ; but an equitable jointure, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Dower by Charles Harvey Scribner, Alfred I. Phillips (1888)
"Requisites of a legal jointure. 7, 8. It must consist of an estate or interest
in land. 9-12. It must take effect immediately on the death of the husband. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife, as Respects Property: Partly by John Edward Bright, b, Roper Stote Donnison Roper, Edward Jacob (1849)
"On eviction of legal jointure \ 6. Precluded in equity where ... having a legal
jointure is evicted of the whole or a part of it (c) by superior title, ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1909)
"Folger, supra: "A reasonable antenuptial agreement will bar the wife of dower,
though its terms be not such as to constitute a good legal jointure. ..."
5. Reports of Cases, Decided in the High Court of Chancery: By the Right Hon by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Nicholas Simons, John Stuart, John Leach (1824)
"If this, therefore, had been a legal Jointure, and the Settlement had wholly
failed as to the particular Lands by the defect of Title in the Husband, ..."
6. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Vendors and Purchasers of Estates by Edward Burtenshaw Sugden (1830)
"This case expressly decided the point before discussed, as to a legal jointure;
and equity must, in this respect, follow the law. (<f) Harg. n. 8 to Co. ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Property Arising from the Relation Between Husband by Roper Stote Donnison Roper (1820)
"Drury, that if the jointure be made of freehold estates, in trust for the infant,
it will be a good equitable bar, although not a legal jointure. ..."
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