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feme

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feme  (fm)
n.
1. Law A wife.
2. Obsolete A woman.

[Anglo-Norman, from Latin fmina; see female.]


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9) At this point, society viewed women in the three main stages of their lives-feme sole, feme coven, and widow.
Greenberg, "Paradise Enclosed and the Feme Covert"; Susanne Woods, "Choice and Election in Samson Agonistes"; John Rogers, "Milton's Circumcision"; John P.
In his classic tome on the common law, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Sir William Blackstone wrote: "The second private relation of persons is that of marriage, which includes the reciprocal duties of husband and wife; or as most of our elder law books call them, of baron and feme.
 
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