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▪ I. jointure, n.|ˈdʒɔɪntjʊə(r)|
Forms: 4–7 ioynt-, ioint-, ioynct-, (4 ioyngt-, 5 ioyntt-), -ure, -er, (4–6 -our, 5–6 -or(e, 6 -yre, -ur; 5 iuntor, yonture, 6 ionctour, gintur); 7 joinct-, 7–8 joynt-, 7– jointure.
[a. F. jointure:—L. junctūra, f. junct-, ppl. stem of jungĕre to join; see -ure.]
†1. Joining, junction, conjunction, union. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. v. 32 (Camb. MS.) Ioyngture of sowle and body. 1550Veron Godly Sayings (1846) 47 Lette hym notte goo from the joynture and compage of the members. 1601Holland Pliny I. 326 That place where the ioincture is of the shoulders to the nape of the neck. 1606Ford Fame's Memorial x, To..sympathize in ioincture with thy courage.
2. concr. A joining, a junction, a joint. Now rare.
1382Wyclif Ezek. xxxvii. 7, I prophecied..and loo! a styryng to gydre, and bones wenten to boones, eche to his ioynture. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 109 Þei ben bounde togidere bi oon ioynture, þe which þat strecchiþ from bifore to bihynde to þe lenkþe of þe heed, þe which is clepid sagittales. Ibid. 157 Alle þese boonys..þat ben in ioynturis, as þe schuldris, elbowis [etc.]. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxxi. 80 The necke..is the ioynture of the hede and the body and maketh them bothe one. 1594Daniel Cleopatra iii. ii, Her disioyned Iointures as undone, Let fall her weak dissolved Limbs Support. 1609Bible (Douay) 1 Chron. xxii. 3 Yron for the nayles of the gates, and for the ioyninges and ioynctures. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. III. 30/1 The jointures and commissures of both halves shou'd perfectly tally to each other. 1888Harper's Mag. Aug. 332 A wall whose every jointure is being attacked by vigorous little weeds.
†3. The holding of an estate by two or more persons in joint-tenancy. Obs.
[1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 13 §7 Euerie personne..which..shall haue iuncture in vse or in possession..of or in any manours.] 1574tr. Littleton's Tenures 57 b, He that surviveth shal have onely the whole tenancy after such estate as he hath if y⊇ iointure bee continued. 1601–2W. Fulbecke 1st Pt. Parall. 30 If lands be giuen to two, and the heirs of one of them, this is a good iointure, & the one hath freehold & the other fee simple, and if hee which hath the fee die, he that hath the frehold shal haue the entierty. 1660C. Bonde Scut. Reg. 223 If Lands are given to the King and a subject, or if there be two jointenants and the Crown descend to one of them, the Jointure is severed, and they are Tenants in Common. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. xii. 180 Such..an estate is called an estate in joint-tenancy, and sometimes an estate in jointure.
4. spec.
a. orig. The holding of property to the joint use of a husband and wife for life or in tail, as a provision for the latter, in the event of her widowhood. Hence, by extension,
b. A sole estate limited to the wife, being ‘a competent livelihood of freehold for the wife of lands and tenements, to take effect upon the death of the husband for the life of the wife at least’ (Coke upon Littleton, 36 b).
1451Rolls Parlt. V. 218/1 This Acte shall not extende to the prejudice of..the Quene of hir Dower, joyntour or freeholder, to hir by you graunted. a1466Paston Lett. II. 79 The maner of Estlexham, the qwych is parte of my juntor. 1513More Rich. III, Wks. (1557) 58 Yt she might be restored vnto such smal landes as her late husband had giuen her in iointure. 1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. x. §4 In every suche case every woman maryed havyng such Ioynter..shal not clayme to have eny Dower of the residue of the Landes..that..were her said husbondes. 1556R. Arden's Will in French Shaks. Geneal. (1869) 470, I will that my wyfe shall have butt iij.li. vjs. viij.d. and her gintur in Snytterfylde. 1684Wood Life 11 May (O.H.S.) III. 95 He had married a widdow of 700 li. per annum joynter. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. viii. 137 A jointure..strictly speaking, signifies a joint estate, limited to both husband and wife, but in common acceptation extends also to a sole estate, limited to the wife only. 1876Digby Real Prop. vi. 295 It became a common practice for a man upon his marriage to convey lands to feoffees to the joint use of himself and his wife for life or in tail, by which means a provision for the remainder of her life was secured to the wife. This was called a jointure.
†c. Used as equivalent to dowry: see dowry 2.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxix. 259 For the withholdyng of the dowre, or ioyntoure, of his firste doughter, maryed vnto Wyllyam y⊇ Kynges sone. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 280, I am perswaded yat my faire daughter shal be wel maryed, for there is none, that will or can demaund a greater ioynter then Beautie. 1598Florio, Indotato, without a dowrie or iointer. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 364 She would make likewise a thousand pound Joyncture of her behaviour only, and Court-carriage.
5. Comb., as jointure-castle, -house, one settled upon a woman as a jointure (sense 4); † jointure-water = joint-water, synovia (see joint n. 15).
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 324/2 We must not to suddaynly restrayne the Synnue, or Ioyncture-water. 1773Johnson in Boswell 18 Sept., Most of the great families of England have a secondary residence, which is called a jointure-house. 1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. (1863) 273 Leaving the great town in which she had hitherto resided, and coming to occupy the family jointure-house at Oakhampstead. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) III. ix. 73 Within this castle lay the little King, who was thus conveyed to her jointure castle at Stirling.
▪ II. ˈjointure, v.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To settle a jointure upon; to provide with a jointure: see prec. 4.
a1634Randolph Poems (1638) 6 But what fond virgin will my love preferre, That only in Parnassus joynture her? 1667–8Pepys Diary 10 Feb., She to have {pstlg}600 presently, and..to be joyntured in {pstlg}60 per annum. 1762Foote Lyar iii. Wks. 1799 I. 313 She'll be easily jointur'd. 1885Law Rep. 28 Chanc. Div. 205 Trusts which gave A. and B. respectively..powers of jointuring their wives. |