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But from 1633 onward it became the anchor of the Jenkin family in Kent; and though passed on from brother to brother, held in shares between uncle and nephew, burthened by debts and jointures, and at least once sold and bought in again, it remains to this day in the hands of the direct line.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

He had quite slept off what he would have called the nonsense of last night, and was very keen upon settlements, consols, mortgages, jointures, and all that dry but momentous lore.

Wylder's Hand 2003

He talked a long time of jointures, three per cents, India stock; and I-- O youth!

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

It need hardly be said that the land should pay on so many years 'purchase, say thirty in Great Britain, and twenty in Ireland of the _clear rent_, after deducting the interest of mortgages or heritable bonds or jointures.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

In the second place, and this is a most important circumstance, the burdens which have been mentioned all fall as a burden on the landowner, how much soever his property may be charged with mortgages, jointures, or other real burdens.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

There is little peace in the land, for the kings are for ever quarrelling over their jointures; but it seems that Harald Greyfell is having the upper hand over his brothers.

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

To cheer me he went on with some foolish footman's gossip that there lacked not ladies with jointures who would marry me, and be thankful.

Richard Carvel — Volume 07 Winston Churchill 1909

To cheer me he went on with some foolish footman's gossip that there lacked not ladies with jointures who would marry me, and be thankful.

Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

To cheer me he went on with some foolish footman's gossip that there lacked not ladies with jointures who would marry me, and be thankful.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

Then the butchers took combs of iron, and began to comb him on the sides within the flesh, that the blood ran down over all his body and that the entrails and guts appeared by the jointures of his sides.

The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900