feme covert
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feme covert
- (Droit) (Principalement historique) Femme mariée.
- ‘you, Diana Vernon, spinstress, not being a femme couverte, and being a convict popish recusant, are bound to repair to your own dwelling, and that by the nearest way, under penalty of being held felon to the king [...].’ — (Walter Scott, Rob Roy, IX, 1817)
- A deed of a feme covert, to be valid, must be executed by the husband also. — (Thomas W Waterman, American Chancery Digest, vol. II, 1851)
- Connecticut courts failed to recognize feme couvert property rights until 1723, when the legislature finally passed an act significantly reforming the law on conveyancing. — (Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America, 1986)
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- (Royaume-Uni) : \fɛmˈkʌvət\
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- Cette page utilise des informations de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : feme covert. (liste des auteurs et autrices)