Feme Sole Trader
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
A married woman who trades and deals on her own account, independently of her husband. By the custom of London a feme covert beinga sole trader, may sue and be sued in the city courts, as a feme sole, with reference to her transactions in London. Bac. Ab. Baron and Feme, M._ In Pennsylvania where any mariners or others go abroad leaving their wives at shop-keeping, or to work for their livelihood at any other trade, all such wives are declared to be feme sole traders, with ability to sue and be sued, without naming the husbands.
Act of February 22, 1718. _FEOD.
Vide Fef or Feud.