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Definition of Feme covert

Feme covert
Feme Feme (? or ?), n. [OF. feme, F. femme.] (Old Law) A woman. --Burrill. Feme covert (Law), a married woman. See Covert, a., 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 merchant (Eng. Law), a married woman, who, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.

Meaning of Feme covert from wikipedia

- woman became a feme covert, whose legal rights and obligations were mostly subsumed by those of her husband. An unmarried woman, or feme sole, retained...
- was considered to have the legal status of feme sole, while a married woman had the status of feme covert. These are English spellings of medieval Anglo-Norman...
- advantage in this work. A married woman at that time had the legal status of feme covert, which, among other things, excluded her from signing contracts (her...
- children's guardians. Harvard Business School, 2010: "A married woman or feme covert was a dependent, like an underage child or a slave, and could not own...
- married woman. The Illinois Supreme Court cited the legal doctrine of feme covert, a common law principle, which granted a woman's legal standing to her...
- giving rise to such absurdities as une home ('a (feminine) man') or un feme ('a (masculine) woman'). Its vocabulary became increasingly English, as it...
- the expropriation of property, but married women were protected under "feme covert", which meant that they had no political identity and their legal rights...
- accorded women. Under English Common Law, Lockwood was considered a "feme covert" (English version of medieval Anglo-Norman legal term), that is, a married...
- [citation needed] English common law defined the role of the wife as a feme covert, emphasising her subordination to her husband, and putting her under...
- adopted the doctrine of coverture, which held that a married woman was a "feme covert" with no legal personhood of her own and who was legally considered indistinct...