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Feme sole

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A single woman, including those who have been married, but whose marriage has been dissolved by death or divorce, and, for most purposes, those women who are judicially separated from their husbands.

Mozley & Whitley ; 2 Steph. Comm. 250. Kirk-ley v. Lacey, 7 Houst. (Del.) 213, 30 Ali. 994.