Jointress

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jointress \Joint"ress\, n. (Law)
     A woman who has a jointure. [Written also {jointuress}.]
     --Blackstone.
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:



  JOINTRESS or JOINTURESS. A woman who has an estate settled on her by her 
  husband, to hold during her life, if she survive him. Co. Litt. 46.