-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
- was
often neglected,
giving rise to une home ('a (feminine) man') or un
feme ('a (masculine) woman'). More and more of its
vocabulary became English,...
-
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...
-
French felonie,
compare modern Fr. félonie
female (Old Fr. femelle)
feme covert feme sole feminine, Old Fr. femenin,
compare Mod. Fr. féminin
feminism feminist...
-
colonial times in
America fell
under the
English governance rule of
feme covert. This
meant that a
married woman had no
separate legal identity from...
- in Literature, 23: 58–68. Davidson,
Cathy N. (2004), "Privileging the
Feme Covert: The
Sociology of
Sentimental Fiction",
Revolution and the Word: The...
