Feme
Feme (fem or fam) , noun
[Old French feme, French femme.]
(Old Law) A woman. — Burrill
Collocations (3)
Feme sole (Law) , a single or unmarried woman; a woman who has never been married, or who has been divorced, or whose husband is dead.
Feme sole trader or Feme sole merchant (Eng. Law) , a married woman, who, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.