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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"jointure"”.
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A Comparison of the Status of Widows in Eighteenth-Century England and Colonial America.
… of the land and property of her husband. Jointure was instituted in England in 1536 and enabled men to bypass dower and settle a yearly sum on a widow. The creation of jointure was able to proliferate in England due to the cash-centered economy, but jointure never manifested itself in …
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The widow's might: Law and the widow in British fiction, 1689-1792.
… century, dower was increasingly barred by jointure, a monetary provision negotiated in the marriage settlement. Jointure was contractual in nature, often unconnected to land, subject to the ideological vagaries of the Courts of Equity, and violable in ways that dower was not. Running …
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Maids, Wives and Widows: Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… annuities or ‘pin-money’, widows’ dower or jointure, and provisions made for daughters and younger children. Following this, the thesis is divided into three main sections which each look at the ways in which women, depending upon their marital status, could engage in architecture. The first …