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feme-sole

A single woman; one who has never been married, who has been judicially separated from her husband, or whose mariage has been disolved by divorce from, or by the death of, the husband.  A married woman who, in matters of property, is independent of her husband, is a feme sole as to such property, and may deal with it as if she were unmarried. Taylor v. Meads,

Source : William C. Anderson, A Dictionary of Law (1893)

Language : English

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