Accordingly, in 1883, by legislative decree, we find that Claudia Shaw, of Macon county, was released from the conjugal bond and constituted a feme sole for all purposes whatsoever.
In England, where the right to vote is based on property and not person, the feme sole freeholder has exercised her right all along.
The property of a woman married after the beginning of the act, whether belonging to her at the time of marriage or acquired after marriage, is held by her as a feme sole.
But it was afterwards held that any engagements, clearly made with reference to the separate estate, would bind that estate, exactly as if the woman had been a feme sole.
If he should be put into the penitentiary, she may transact business as if she were a feme sole.
The New-York Assembly in February, 1865, passed a law putting the legal evidence of a married woman on the same basis as if she were a feme sole.
What express enactments she passed in 1853 seem to refer rather to making the position of a deserted wife equivalent to that of a feme sole than any thing else.
The legislature of 1873 also passed an act regulating the liquor traffic, in which it is formally provided that a wife shall have the same right to sue, to control the suit, and to control the sum recovered by the suit, as a feme sole.
She may become a stockholder of any bank, insurance company or any incorporated association, as if she were a feme sole, and may vote by proxy or otherwise.
At an early period in the English law, it was determined that the marriage of a feme sole was sufficient to revoke a will made by her previous to her marriage.
Unmarried women have here no ground for complaint: "A feme sole, before her marriage, may do all acts for disposition, etc.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feme sole" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
