Feme

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FEME, or, more properly,