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Definition: Feme sole
Feme
\Feme\ (f[e^]m or f[a^]m), n. [OF. feme, F. femme.] (Old
Law)
A woman. --Burrill.
[1913 Webster]
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
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.
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