 | John Reeves, William Francis Finlason - 1869 - 842 sidor
...defined a jointure to be a competent livelihood of freehold for the wife, to take effect immediately after the death of the husband, for the life of the wife, if she is not the cause of the determination or forfeiture of it. It was said by Lord Dyer, that the... | |
 | Jasper Yeates, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - 1871 - 636 sidor
...accepts it. A jointure is a competent livelihood of freehold for the wife to take effect immediately after the death of the husband, for the life of the wife, if she herself is not the cause of the determination or forfeiture of it. 4 Co. 2, 6. Every grant durant... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1872 - 776 sidor
...acceptation extends also to a sole estate, limited to the wife only, is thus defined by Sir Edward Coke; (t) "a competent livelihood of freehold for the wife,...husband, for the life of the wife at least." This description is framed from the purview of the statute 27 Henry VIII, с 10, before-mentioned ; commonly... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1873 - 582 sidor
...unless, indeed, by jointure. A jointure (1 Inst. 36) is defined to be "a competent livelihood 616] of freehold for the wife, of lands and tenements,...possession presently after the death of the husband" The requisites are, that it must be an absolute estate. It mast vest presently upon the death of the... | |
 | Leonard Shelford, Great Britain, Thomas Henry Carson - 1874 - 936 sidor
...Swanst. 429, n.) A jointnrc within that statute is defined to be a competent livelihood of freehold to the wife of lands and tenements, to take effect in...of the husband, for the life of the wife at least, if she herself be not the cause of its determination or forfeiture. (Co. Litt. 36 b, 37.) According... | |
 | Kenelm Edward Digby - 1876 - 486 sidor
...common acceptation, however, it extends to a sole estate, and is defined by Sir Edward Coke to be ' a competent livelihood of freehold for the wife of...of the husband for the life of the wife at least.' (Coke upon Littleton, 36 b.) Before this statute the widow would not have been endowed of the lands... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1876 - 782 sidor
...the wife, of lands and tenements; to take effect, in profit or possession, presently after the deatli of the husband, for the life of the wife at least." This description is framed from the purview of the statute 27 Henry VIII, с 10, before-mentioned ; commonly... | |
 | Gordon Campbell - 1879 - 152 sidor
...acceptance, previously to marriage and in satisfaction of her dower, of a competent livelihood of freehold lands and tenements, to take effect in profit or possession...of the husband, for the life of the wife at least. The other methods of barring dower under the old law were — 1. By the purchaser of lands taking a... | |
 | Edward Henslowe Bedford - 1879 - 308 sidor
...livelihood of freehold for the wife of lands and tenements, to take effect in profit or possesssion presently after the death of the husband, for the life of the wife at least. Wluit are the requisites of jointure ? (1.) It must be limited to take effect immediately on the death... | |
 | William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - 1880 - 650 sidor
...wife, but in common acceptation extends also to a sole estate limited to the wife only, is thus defined by Sir Edward Coke : " a competent livelihood of freehold...of the husband, for the life of the wife at least." Before the Statute of Uses the greater part of the land of England was conveyed to uses, and the cestui... | |
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a competent livelihood of freehold for the wife, of lands and tenements; to take effect, in profit or possession, presently after the death of the husband, for the life of the wife at least. 
