Feme

An ancient con - cept called feme covert - an old idea, old spell - ing - denoted a covered woman, a married woman whose only legal rights were those under the pro - tection of her husband. ❋ Michener, James (1987)

a "feme" pronounced FEEM, a meme designed for Facebook here. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Under law, you are still a feme sole, not a feme covert. ❋ Posie Graeme-Evans (2010)

Under English common law, an unmarried adult was considered to have the legal status of a feme sole (in law book French), while a married woman had the status of a feme covert. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Under the English common law of feme covert – which was also the law in Massachusetts – married women had no right to own property, and the personal property a married daughter inherited from her father immediately became the legal possession of her husband, who could exert full powers of ownership over it. ❋ Maggiemac (2008)

When a woman married, her legal status became that of feme covert, meaning that the wife was covered by the civil identity of her husband – any property she might have became her husband's. ❋ Maggiemac (2008)

So she went out to do this, and the Queen, turning to him, conversed with him in friendly fashion, and enforced herself to reassure his awe of her and do away his shame with speech blander than the zephyr, saying, “Art thou content to be to me baron and I to thee feme?” ❋ Unknown (2006)

January 18, 2008 at 3:50 pm akshullly……dis duz giv me an idear……..a series ov photoz from kittehz view…..but wat shood be teh overawl feme ov teh seriz ? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ayase in look and temperament is very very feme so often times my guy friends do lose sleep after watching part of the anime. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2008)

There were piecemeal reforms, and also private acts, to take care of particular situations—the legislature could give “feme sole” status to a married woman whose husband had abandoned her, making it possible for her to sell or mortgage her land.20 ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)

Most restricted was the married woman, the feme coverte, who could not own property in her own right, enter into contracts without her husband's permission, sue or be sued. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Upon marriage, she became a feme coverte; a single woman, by contrast, maintained her own legal identity as feme sole. back ❋ Unknown (2005)

Of course, the woman who was most constrained by the formal legal system was the married woman, the feme coverte, with no formal legal identity separate from her husband's. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In terms of the day-to-day management of household resources, women's authority was paramount in many families. 10 Of course, this was self-evidently true of women who enjoyed the status of feme sole, but married women were also the primary household managers within the plebeian community on the southern Avalon. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This odd little tome tells the story of a private eye (Ewan McGregor) who ends up becoming obsessed with feme fatale (literally!) ❋ K'vitsh (2006)

I am, in fact, a spinster, an old maid, a maiden aunt, though the term I like best is the old one used in law, a feme sole. ❋ Diane Silver (2006)

She should have feme from a landscape of flames and spewing lava. ❋ Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- (2004)