Feme covert (Law), a married woman. See Covert, a., 3.
Feme sole (Law), a single or unmarried woman; a woman who has never been married, or who has been divorced, or whose husband is dead.
Feme sole trader or Feme sole merchant (Eng. Law), a married woman, who, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.
... and to covenant with her would be to covenant with himself." Their covenants or indebtedness to each other before marriage are by the marriage extinguished (Blackstone, I., 442; Coke Litt., 3, 30; 112 a; 187 b; Connyn. Dig. Baron and Feme, D). ... — History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various
... important of social institutions—the provisions of the canon law are mainly reproduced, with the genuine German practice of joint possession of the property, as expressed in the passage: Saches que nul home n'est si dreit heir au mort come est sa feme. ('No one so properly as the wife inherits the property of a ... — The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 • Various
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