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.
The inscription on it is "Honorable homme maître Nicole Leroux licentie es loix advocant et Marie Bunel sa feme ont donne ceste vitreau moys de may lan de grace 1549 priez dieu pour eulx.
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.
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.
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.
Money given to a feme covert for her maintenance, because her husband is an unthrift.
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.
After such separation the wife is considered as a feme sole with respect to property, contracts, wrongs, suing and being sued; and her husband is not liable for her engagements.
Quant je vieng a mon hoste Et ma feme a regarde Derier moi le sac enfle, Et ge qui sui bien pare De robe grise, Sachiez qu'ele a tot jus mise La quenoille, sans faintise.
A feme covert cannot sue without her husband being joined as co-plaintiff, so long as the relation of marriage subsists.
Unmarried women have here no ground for complaint: "A feme sole, before her marriage, may do all acts for disposition, etc.
A feme covert is not a lawful witness against her husband, except in cases of treason, but has been admitted in civil cases.
He put on his stereotyped smile, expecting to see little Mrs. Feme step out, as was her custom, and drop him a country curtsey.
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.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feme" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: concubine; helpmate; lady; matron; rib; squaw; wife; woman
