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no jointure, and Likewife her dower. By Bridgman, Ch. J. 
an eftate is made to hulband in tail, with remainder to 
the wife for life, and remainder to others: this is not 
fuch a jointure, as, with her acceptance, within the ftatute, 
will hinder her from dower; and, though the hulband 
die without iflue, it will not help it, but the wife fhall 
be endowed in his other land : but, if the eltate were 
made to the hulband and wife for their lives, it would be 
otherwife. 13 Jac. I. B. R. 2. Shep. Abr. 74. 
After the death of the hulband, the wife may enter 
into her jointure, and is not driven to a real adlion, as 
liie is to recover dower by the common law; and, upon 
a lawful eviction of her jointure, fhe fhall be endowed ac¬ 
cording to the rate of her hulband’s land, whereof fhe was 
dowaWe at common law. Co. Lit. 37. If Ihe be evicted of 
part of her jointure, fire lhall have dower pro tanto. A 
wife’s jointure fhall not be forfeited by the treafon of the 
hufband: but feme-coverts, committing treafon or felony, 
may forfeit their jointures; and, being convift of recu- 
fancy, they fhall forfeit two parts in three of their join¬ 
tures and dower. 3 Jac. I. c. 4. If a woman conceals her 
jointure, and brings dower and recovers it, and then fet3 
up her jointure, Ihe is barred of her jointure; and, by 
bringing writ of dower for her thirds, the wife waives 
the benefit of entry into lands, fo as to hold them in 
jointure. 
When eftates fettled on a wife are a jointure, if the 
jointrefs makes any alienation of them by fine, feoffment, 
See. with another hufband, it is a forfeiture of the fame; 
but, if they are not a jointure by law, it is otherwife. 
a Nelf. 1040. A jointrefs within the ftatute may make a 
leafe for forty years, &c. if Ihe fo long live; and alfo for 
life, and be no forfeiture, though fhe levies a fine fur cog- 
nifance de droit, &c. Cro. jac. 688. 3 Rtp. 50. iLill.it. In 
other cafes, if (he levies a fine, it is a forfeiture ; and, if 
a jointrefs, within the Hat. 11 Hen. VII. c. 20, fuffer a re¬ 
covery covinoufly to bar the heir, the heir may enter pre- 
fently, &c. 2 Leon. 206. x Plowd. 42. 
, With refpecl to the afts of a jointrefs, or thofe of her 
hulband defeating her of her jointure, and how far equity 
will relieve her, fee Co. Lit. 36. Dyer, 358. 2 Inf. 673. 1 Chan. 
Caf. 1 19, 120. 2 Char.. Caf. 162. 1 Fern. 427, 479. 2 Fern. 
701. and 14 Fin. Abr. alfo Baron and Feme, Dower, 
and Marriage. 
in JOIN'TURE, adv. [A law phrafe.} Jointly.—Such 
eftate is called fometimes an eltate in jointure. Blackfone. 
JOIN'TURESS, / See Jointress. 
JOIN / TURING,y. The a6l of making, fettling, or be- 
ftowing, a jointure. 
JOIN'VILLE, a town of France, and principal place of 
a diftrift, in the department of the Upper Marne, on the 
Marne: fifteen miles fouth-ealt of St. Dizier, and twenty- 
one north of Chaumont en Bafligny. Lat. 48. 27. N. 
Ion. 5. 13. E. 
JOIN'VILLE (John fire de), fenefchal of Champagne, 
a French hiltorian, born in the earlier part of the thir¬ 
teenth century, was a conliderable perfon in th.e-court of 
Louis IX. commonly called Saint Louis. He followed 
that king in all his military expeditions, and alfo aflifted 
him in the adminiftration of juftice. It was his office, 
together with other noblemen, to hear the pleas of appli¬ 
cants at the palace-gate, and to report them to his ma- 
jefty, and make enquiry as to the truth of the allegations. 
When Louis took the crofs and made his unfortunate ex¬ 
pedition to Egypt in 1249, Joinville, in (ligated by the 
martial fpirit and devotion of the age, attended him with 
a train of followers fuited to his rank; and his plain and 
honeft narrative of this enterprife in his Life of St. Louis 
is one of the molt curious and valuable records of the 
time. Joinville (hared his mailer’s captivity, as well as 
the dangers which they all incurred from a favage and 
exafperated foe. With the iincerity of confcious bravery, 
die has drawn an undifguifed picture of himfelf and his 
brother-nobles when a band of barbarians broke into the 
galley in which they were kept prifoners, a&d threatened 
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them with inflant death: “I knelt," fays he, “at the 
feet of one of them, ftretching out my neck, and faying 
thefe words, while I made the fign of the crofs, Thus 
died St. Agnes. Opponte me knelt the conftable of Cy¬ 
prus, and confefled to me. I gave him fuch an abfo- 
lution as God empowered me to do ; but not a fingle 
word that he had fpoken did I recolleCt as foon as I had 
rifen.” Joinville, however, returned in fafety; and was 
fo impreffed with the danger and impolicy o.f thefe expe¬ 
ditions, that he greatly condemns tkofe who advifed 
Louis to undertake his fecond crufade, and excufed him¬ 
felf from accompanying the king, on the pretext of having 
been ruined by the firlt. 
The familiarity with which Louis honoured Joinville, 
gave him an opportunity of tracing the links of every 
event in his reign: and the candour and fnnplicity of the 
recital which he has left us of thefe events, afford ftrong 
proofs of his exa&nefs. He does not extend his account 
of faCls farther than what he perfonally witneffed. The 
Memoirs, which Joinville finifhed in 1309, were not pub- 
lilhed till after the death of Philip the Fair: and, although 
they include a fpace of but fix years, they give us fuf 7 
ficient information refpeCling the military lyftem of thofe 
days, and the principles of adminiftration adopted by St 
Louis. They prefent to us a faithful picture of the cuf- 
toms and manners of the ancient French; charm us with 
that affecting fimplicity of ftyle which is one of their 
greateft merits; and difplay the mind of St. Louis with 
the inoft exact truth. This work has been many times 
printed. The moft valuable edition, for the notes and 
obfervations, is that of Du Cange, in 1068 ; but the difi- 
covery of a more authentic manufeript gave occafion to 
a Louvre edition in 1761, containing the original text: 
pure and unaltered. From this edition a tranllation was 
made in the year 1S07, by Thomas Johnes, efq. and ele¬ 
gantly printed at the Hafod prefs, under the title of The 
Memoirs of Lord John de Joinville, 2 vols. 4to. This 
tranllation, on account of the valuable additions made to 
if, deferves particular notice. The 'contents of the firft 
volume are as follow : 1. The Genealogy of the Houfe of 
Joinville. 2. DilTertation on the Life of St. Louis, writ¬ 
ten by the Lord de Joinville, by M. le Baron de la Baftie. 
3. Additions to the fame. 4. The Hiftory of St. Louis, 
by John Lord de Joinville. 5. Notes on the above Hif¬ 
tory, by Charles du Frefne, fieur du Cange. The fecond 
volume is entirely filled vtith Du Cange’s Differtations on 
the Hiftory. The work is accompanied by a portrait of 
the lord de Joinville, taken from his monument; a map 
of the Crufade of St. Louis in Egypt and in Paleftine; 
a map of the Delta, explanatory of the expedition ; a view 
of the town and caltle of Joinville; an outline of St. 
Louis, from his monument; and a m3p of Syria and Pa¬ 
leftine. The lord de Joinville died about 1318, at not 
much lefs than ninety years of age. The Memoirs, as 
they now Hand, were the laft production of the Hafod 
prefs, before the conflagration of Mr. Johrfes’s library; 
the lofs of which will be deplored by every lovei of our 
ancient hiftory. 
JOIST, f. [from joindre, Fr.) The fecondary beam of 
a floor.—Some wood is not good to ufe for beams or joifs, 
becaufe of the brittlenefs. Mortimer. 
The kettle to the top was hoift, 
And there flood faftened to a jeif. Swift. 
To JOIST, v. a. To fit in the (mailer beams of a flooring. 
JOIST'ING, f. The att of fitting in the finall timbers 
of a floor. 
JOK'ALAX, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Abo: twenty-two miles north-weft of Abo. 
JOKA'RI TUS'T-A. See Soli. 
JOK'DEAM, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JOKE,/ [jeeus, Lat.] A jell; fomething not ferious, 
—Why Ihould public mockery in print, or a merry joke 
upon a ftage, be a better tell of truth than public perfe- 
cutions ? Watts. 
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