Found 1 items, similar to Feme sole trader.
English → English (gcide) Definition: Feme sole trader 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. [1913 Webster]