jointure

Nonetheless, for the upper classes, haggling over dowries and jointures ensured that matrimony was often approached like a business arrangement.

Miss Lumley became Mrs. Sterne in due time, and brought to her husband a modest jointure, and another living at Stillington, so that he was now a pluralist, although far from rich.

Worse still, he refused to send her even a portion of her jointure.

To Joseph he left two thousand pounds; and the estate in Cornwall, to my mother, in addition to her jointure.

Oh, of course her jointure will be paid.