feme covert

American  

[kuhv-ert] / ˈkʌv ərt /

noun

Law.

plural

femes covert

1. a married woman.

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feme covert British  

noun

1. law a married woman

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Etymology

Origin of feme covert

1520–30; < Anglo-French: covered (protected) woman

Example Sentences

A feme covert may be an attorney of another, to make livery to her husband upon a feoffment; and a husband may take such livery to his wife, although they are generally deemed but one person in law.

From Project Gutenberg

Clayton, 32 Ill., 493, this honorable court held, that a married woman might bring replevin in her own name, for her separate property, against a third party, or even against her own husband, and that the act designed to make and did make a radical and thorough change in the condition of a feme covert; that she is to be regarded as unmarried, so far as her separate property is concerned.

From Project Gutenberg

But it was that very matter and question which has been mooted in the dictum of Lord Coke, the freeholder's franchise in the shire, and upon that the decision in each case expressly was, that a feme sole shall vote if she hath a freehold, and that if she be not a feme sole, but a feme covert having freehold, then her husband during her coverture shall vote in her right.

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