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Married women’s status as femes covert did not change as a result of the Revolution, and wives remained economically dependent on their husbands.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

Thus, for example, monks, infants, femes covert, persons attainted, outlawed, or excommunicated villains, and aliens, may be agents for others....

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady