a provision for a widow, usually made in her marriage contract and consisting of an annual payment to be made to her in her lifetime; if such a jointure was appointed for a wife, it would unless otherwise provided for deprive her of her widow’s terce, but she was better off with the jointure, since if her husband died in debt or bankrupt, she would be reckoned as one of his creditors and be able to make her claim first rather than waiting till the debts were settled and having to make do with a share of what was left.

a Scots measure of liquid capacity. The pint was sometimes referred to as the ‘jug’ or ‘joug‘. See also Liquid Capacity.

‘the right of the relict’ (the widow).  It is the share of the moveable goods of a marriage to which a widow was entitled on the death of her husband. If there were no surviving children the jus relictae was one-half of the husband’s moveable goods. If there were children, one-third would go to them as the bairns’ pairt or legitim, one-third was the jus relictae and the remaining one-third would be the dead’s part which the deceased could bequeath. Widowers were given the same rights, jus relicti, in 1881. See also terce for the widow’s rights in heritables.

an alternative name for the periodic circuits or tours made by the justiciar throughout the country for the purpose of administering justice in criminal cases, carried out by the High Court of Justiciary.