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Webster 1913 Edition


Feme

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Feme

(fĕm or făm)
,
Noun.
[OF.
feme
, F.
femme
.]
(Old Law)
A woman.
Burrill.
Feme covert
(Law)
,
a married woman. See
Covert
,
Adj.
, 3.
–
Feme sole
(Law)
,
a single or unmarried woman; a woman who has never been married, or who has been divorced, or whose husband is dead.
–
Feme sole trader
or
Feme sole merchant
(Eng. Law)
,
a married woman, who, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.