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Name	Term description
Name J P	Term description Justice of the Peace
Name J./jour.	Term description Journeyman - between an apprentice and master of a trade
Name J.P.	Term description Justice of the peace
Name Jailer	Term description One who keeps a jail or is responsible for the security of a jail
Name Janitor	Term description Doorkeeper, caretaker
Name Japanner	Term description A person who applies a glossy black varnish or lacquer finish to, for example, furniture or boxes.
Name Javelor	Term description One who makes and sells jewellry
Name Jeweller	Term description One who makes and sells jewellry
Name Joiner	Term description One who makes things from wood
Name Jointure	Term description 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 would 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.
Name Journeyman	Term description Qualified craftsman working for another
Name Judge	Term description One who gives verdicts in court
Name Junior	Term description Heir to a title, or second of two sons or daughters, or one too young to act independently in law
Name Jus mariti	Term description A husbands right to his wife's moveables.
Name Jus relictae	Term description The 'right of the relict' (the widow); the share of the moveable goods of a marriage to which a widow was entitled on the death of her husband. If there were children, one-third would go to them as the bairns' pairt or legitim, and a further one-third would be the dead's part the deceased could bequeath, so that the jus relictae would be the other. (Terce has to do with heritables.)