Baron and feme

Husband and wife. A wife being under the protection and influence of her baron, lord, or husband, is styled a "feme-covert," (fœmina viro cooperta,) and her state of marriage is called her "coverture." Cummings v. Everett, 82 Me. 260, 19 Atl. 456.

Defined under Baron in Black's Law Dictionary.

Husband and wife. A wife being under the protection and influence of her bao, lord, or busband, is styled a “feme-covert,” (femina viro cooperta,) and her state of marriage is called her “coverture.”

Fr. Husband and wife. A phrase of constant occurrence in the older law books, and not yet obsolete. Baron, in this connexion, is supposed by Blackstone and other writers, to have the sense of lord, implying superiority and protection. 1 Bl. Com. 442. Co. Litt. 112 a. But, according to Spelman, it is to be taken in its simple primitive sense of mxm. See Baro. Baron and feme therefore strictly means nothing more than man and woman, or man and wife; (Gr. ^v^ig Hat ywii, Lat. vir et mulier;) mulier being always used in the old law in the sense of wife, (uxor.) Spelman. voc. Baro. Of these terms, ferns, fern, or femms, is still separately and frequently used to signify a woman, or w^ife. See Feme, Feme covert, Mulier. ^' Kfeme took baron;" that is, a woman took husband. Cro. Eliz. 825.