[Altered form of JOINTRESS, after jointure.] = JOINTRESS.
a. 1693. Aubrey, Lives (1898), I. 136. He [Butler] maried a good jointuresse, the relict of Morgan, by which meanes he lives comfortably.
1711. Lond. Gaz., No. 4905/3. The Reversion and Fee-Simple Estate, after the Death of a Jointuress.
1848. Wharton, Law Lex., Jointress, or Jointuress.
