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Feme
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Femeor more properly Femme, Woman.
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Femme
or feme. Woman.
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Feigned issue, pract
Issue. Practice. An issue brought by consent of the parties, or the direction of a court of equity, or such courts as possess equitable powers, to determine before a jury some disputed matter of fact, which the court has not the power or is unwilling to decide.
Felo de se
Criminal law. A felon of himself; a self-murderer.
Feloniously
Pleadings. This is a technical word which must be introduced into every indictment for a felony, charging the offence to have been committed feloniously; no other word, nor any circumlocution, will supply its place.
Female
This term denotes the sex which bears young.
Female; feme; femme
French. A woman; a wife. Feme is the older form: Latin femella, femina, a young woman. Plural, femes, femmes.
Feme
Feme covert
A married woman: under the wing, protection or cover of her husband.
Feme covert or feme-covert
A married woman. By marriage, husband and wife are one person in law. Under his protection and "cover", she does everything; and is therefore called in law a feme covert (french); while her condition is called "coverture". 1 Bl. Com. 442; 2 id. 292, 433, 497; 32 Barb. 258; 63 Ill. 162; 21 How. 589.
Feme sole or feme-sole
A single woman; one who has never been married, who has been judicially separated from her husband, or whose mariage has been disolved by divorce from, or by the death of, the husband. A married woman who, in matters of property, is independent of her husband, is a feme sole as to such property, and may deal with it as if she were unmarried.
Feminine
What belongs to the female sex.
Femme
or feme. Woman.
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Femme
or feme. Woman.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Feigned issue, pract
Issue. Practice. An issue brought by consent of the parties, or the direction of a court of equity, or such courts as possess equitable powers, to determine before a jury some disputed matter of fact, which the court has not the power or is unwilling to decide.
Felo de se
Criminal law. A felon of himself; a self-murderer.
Feloniously
Pleadings. This is a technical word which must be introduced into every indictment for a felony, charging the offence to have been committed feloniously; no other word, nor any circumlocution, will supply its place.
Female
This term denotes the sex which bears young.
Female; feme; femme
French. A woman; a wife. Feme is the older form: Latin femella, femina, a young woman. Plural, femes, femmes.
Feme
Feme covert
A married woman: under the wing, protection or cover of her husband.
Feme covert or feme-covert
A married woman. By marriage, husband and wife are one person in law. Under his protection and "cover", she does everything; and is therefore called in law a feme covert (french); while her condition is called "coverture". 1 Bl. Com. 442; 2 id. 292, 433, 497; 32 Barb. 258; 63 Ill. 162; 21 How. 589.
Feme sole or feme-sole
A single woman; one who has never been married, who has been judicially separated from her husband, or whose mariage has been disolved by divorce from, or by the death of, the husband. A married woman who, in matters of property, is independent of her husband, is a feme sole as to such property, and may deal with it as if she were unmarried.
Feminine
What belongs to the female sex.
Femme
or feme. Woman.
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