单词 | feme sole |
释义 | feme solen. Law. Now historical. An unmarried woman; (sometimes) spec. one who is divorced or widowed. Also in the English and other common law legal systems: a married woman whose legal status, esp. with regard to her right to own property or to carry on a business, is that of an unmarried woman (cf. feme sole merchant n. at Compounds, feme sole trader n. at Compounds); now historical. Cf. feme covert n.The Married Women's Property Act of 1882 gave married women the right to sue in contract and tort ‘in all respects as if she were a feme sole’ thereby removing many of the legal disabilities to which married women were formerly subject. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] damec1330 matrona1393 feme sole1600 feme covert1602 lucky1629 ma'am1765 marm1865 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [noun] maid1603 maiden lady1628 bachelora1637 feme sole1714 spinstress1716 maidena1802 spin1842 sworn virgin1910 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow widowOE lavec1325 widow woman1340 relictc1460 widow lady1525 widowess1596 maid-widow1655 feme sole1714 veuve1766 ace of spades1811 sod widow1927 1600 W. Fulbecke Direct. Study Lawe vi. f. 48v If a man disseise a feme sole, being an inheritrix of certaine land, and after he taketh her to wife [etc]. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. i. §20. 9 If..the wife as a feme sole..grant a rent. 1714 W. Scroggs Pract. Courts-leet (ed. 3) 90 If the Cattle of a Feme-sole be taken, and afterwards she marry. 1785 Ann. Reg. 1783 195/2 It was impossible for the creditor in England, by the laws of that land, to recover his debt from the husband in Ireland, and therefore, in equity, the wife was considered as a femme sole. 1823 Examiner 78/2 If not a femme sole, she was not sueable at law. 1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors I. vii. 134 The Queen Consort..being privileged as a feme sole. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xii. 73 She becomes, after the judicial separation..a feme sole, a single woman, with respect to property. 1925 Harvard Law Rev. 38 625 A married woman whose husband has become insane or who has deserted her for six months may prosecute or defend any action as if a feme sole. 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 1556/2 As femmes soles, they ran businesses, sued, and were sued. 2003 Yale Law Jrnl. 112 1647 A widow... reassumed the status of feme sole as opposed to a feme covert. Compounds feme sole merchant n. now historical = feme sole trader n. ΚΠ 1682 A. Colquitt Mod. Rep. 26 The Plaintiff had declared against the Defendant as a feme sole Merchant. 1724 in B. C. Steiner Acts Gen. Assembly Maryland (1918) 348 As a Feme Sole Merchant she his said wife might Commence Suits for recovery of any Lands debts..or other Contract whatsoever. 1870 J. P. Yeatman Mayor's Court of London Procedure Act 3 It also has a practice, quite peculiar to itself, in awarding restitution of apprentice premiums in city indentures of apprenticeship; also in sequestration, disenfranchisement, apprenticeality, feme sole merchant [etc.] 1990 18th-cent. Stud. 23 487 In the case of the London feme sole merchant, she could be acknowledged as a separate and sole person ‘concerning every thing that toucheth her craft’. feme sole trader n. now historical (esp. in London) a married woman granted the legal right to carry on a business as though she were unmarried. ΚΠ a1701 B. Shower Reports (BL Lansdowne MS 1105) f. 121v All that I can find, except now & then an assertion that there's a Custome in L[ondo]n of a feme sole trader, is the Case of Bowett & Langham,..that if the husband intermedles with the trade of his wife, shee is not a feme sole trader. 1777 Laws respecting Women vi. 175 The feme sole trader in London..must indeed bring her action in London. 1884 G. Kulp Luzerne Legal Reg. Rep. II. 266 The second section of the act of 4th May 1855..gives to feme sole traders ample power to convey their real estate. 2003 T. L. Snyder Brabbling Women v. 119 A wife could..with her husband's consent secure legal status as feme sole trader so that she might carry on a business, execute contracts, or sue or be sued. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1600 |
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