jointure

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Marry her? she'll have a mighty Bargain of that, marry a Beggar, what Jointure canst thou make her?

From The Stolen Heiress or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted by Centlivre, Susanna

Hudibrass's Cupid, who —took his Stand Upon a Widow's Jointure Land2, is daily employed in throwing Darts, and kindling Flames.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

This Pallas dying not many Days after, his two Wives went to Law for their Jointure.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

I may, it seems, live upon half my Jointure!

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Well, Sir Timothy, since my Niece has done amiss, 'tis too late to mend it—and that you may not repent, I'll take care her Fortune shall be suitable to the Jointure you'll make her.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague