Foemina Viro Co-Operta
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A feme covert. FOEMINAE AB OMNIBUS OFFICIIS Clvilibus ve! publicis remotae sunt. Women are excluded from all civil and public charges or offices. Dig. 50. 17. 2; 1 Exch. 645; 6 Mees. & W. 216. FOEMINAE NON SUNT CAPACES DE publicis officlis. Women are not admissable to public offices ( Jenk. Cent. Cas. 237); but a woman may be elected to the office of sexton (7 Mod. 263; Strange, 1114), or governor of a workhouse, and act by deputy (2 Ld. Raym. 1014), or an overseer (2 Term R. 395). See "Women."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A married woman.