JOINTURE
Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
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A competent livelihood of freehold for the wife of lands and tenements to take effect presently in possession or profit, after the decease of the husband, for the life of the wife at least. Co. Litt. 836d; 2 Bl. Comm. 137. See Fellers v. Fellers, 564 Neb. 694, 74 N. W. 1077; Saunders v. Saunders, 144 Mo. 482, 46 S. W. 428; Graham v. Graham, 67
A competent livelihood of freehold for the wife of lands and tenements to take effect presently in possession or profit, after the decease of the husband, for the life of the wife at least. Co. Litt. 836d; 2 Bl. Comm. 137. See Fellers v. Fellers, 564 Neb. 694, 74 N. W. 1077; Saunders v. Saunders, 144 Mo. 482, 46 S. W. 428; Graham v. Graham, 67
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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