Feme

Or FEMME. A woman.

FEMME. A woman.

L. Fr. A woman. In the phrase "baron et feme" (q. v.) the word has the sense of "wife."

— Feme covert. A married woman. Generally used in reference to the legni disabilities of a married woman, as compared with the condition of a feme sole. Hoker v. Boggs, 63 111. 161

— Feme sole. 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.

— Feme sole trader. 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 la applied alse to women deserted by their husbands, who do business as femes sole. Rhea v. Rhenner, 1 Pet. 105, 7 In Ed. 72.

fern, femme, fam, L fr. A woman; a wife. Feme covert, femme couverte: a woman protected, — that is, married. Feme sole: a spinster; — trader: a woman deserted by her husband who does business as a, feme sole. - In English law. Feme sole trader: a married woman, who, by the custom of London, trades on her own account, independently of her husband.

femme, fr. A woman. Feme covert tected) married. Feme sole: a spinster.

Fem, Femme, Fam. L. Fr. [from Lat. femina.] A woman; a wife. Si prent la feme a feme; if he take the woman to wife. Litt. sect. 665. Le baron et la feme sont forsque come une person en ley; the husband and the wife are but one person in law. Id. ibid.