Feme Sole Trader
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English law
A married woman, who, by the custom of London, trades on her own account, independently of her husband; so called because, with respect to her trading, she is the same as a jeme sele.
Jacob; Cro. Car. 68.
The term is applied also to women deserted by their husbands, who do business as femes sole.
1 Pet. 105.