Jointure Law and Legal Definition
Jointure is a provision made by a husband for his wife by settling property upon her at marriage for her use after his death. The property so settled is also called jointure. The requisites of a legal jointure are the jointure must take effect immediately after the husband's death; it must be for the wife's life or for a greater estate, or be determinable by her own act; it must be made before marriage; if after, it is voidable at the wife's election, on the death of the husband; and it must be expressed to be in satisfaction of dower and not of part of it.
