feme : Idioms & Phrases


Feme covert

  • (Law), a married woman. See Covert, a., 3.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

trader ∨ merchant

  • (Eng. Law), a married woman, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.
Webster 1913