| Yet legal terms and procedures were also expected to respect a married woman's special status as a feme covert, a covered woman. |
| Connecticut courts failed to recognize feme couvert property rights until 1723, when the legislature finally passed an act significantly reforming the law on conveyancing. |
| If he should be put into the penitentiary, she may transact business as if she were a feme sole. |
| Interestingly, a feme sole, a single woman, had legal rights in medieval England, but upon marriage, a woman became a feme covert. |
| Baron and feme we call husband and wife, and coverture we term marriage. |
| It would not be advisable to select a feme covert as trustee. |
