Feme Sole Trader
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
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 feme sole.
Jacob; Cro. Car. 68.
The term is applied also to women deserted by their husbands, who do business as femes sole.
1 Pet. (U. S.) 105.