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Femme
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Femmeor feme. Woman.
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Feme
or more properly Femme, Woman.
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Feme
or more properly Femme, Woman.
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
Fence
A building or erection between two contiguous estates, so as to divide them; or on the same estate, so as to divide one part from another.
Feod
The same as fief. Vide Fief or Feud.
Feoffee
The grantee of a feud.
Feoffment
1) The gift of a feud; infeudation. 2) The gift of any corporeal hereditament by delivery of possession upon or within view of the land.
Feoffor
The grantor of a feud.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Feme
or more properly Femme, Woman.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Feme
or more properly Femme, Woman.
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
Fence
A building or erection between two contiguous estates, so as to divide them; or on the same estate, so as to divide one part from another.
Feod
The same as fief. Vide Fief or Feud.
Feoffee
The grantee of a feud.
Feoffment
1) The gift of a feud; infeudation. 2) The gift of any corporeal hereditament by delivery of possession upon or within view of the land.
Feoffor
The grantor of a feud.
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