Meaning & use
Feme
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In older legal usage, a woman, especially as referred to in the status phrases 'feme covert' (a married woman) or 'feme sole' (an unmarried or legally independent woman).
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Under old common law, a feme covert generally could not own property separately from her husband.
As a feme sole, she could sign contracts and sue in court in her own name.
A note on using this word
Derived from Law French (from Old French 'femme'), the term survives mainly in historical and legal texts about married women's property rights.
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