Cone And Key
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A woman at fourteen or fifteen years of age may take charge of her house, and receive cone and key, — that is, keep the accounts and keys.
Cowell.
Said by Lord Coke to be "cover and keye," meaning that at that age a woman knew what in her house should be kept under lock and key.
Coke, 2d Inst. 203.