jointure

liittyminen, yhdistyminen

perintö puhekieltä A joining; a joint.
puhekieltä An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after her husband's death, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower.
Shakespeare

The jointure that your king must make, / Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.

Beasts do no jointures lose

Though they new lovers choose;

But we are made worse than those.