Crossword-Solution: FEME 4 letters, 21 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The other members of the committee being married ladies, Miss Anthony, as a _feme sole_, was alone held capable of making a contract, and was therefore obliged to assume the pecuniary responsibility of the rooms.

She may become a stockholder of any bank, insurance company or any incorporated association, as if she were a _feme sole_, and may vote by proxy or otherwise.

The wife of a drunkard or profligate man by petitioning the Court of Common Pleas, setting forth these facts and his desertion of her and neglect to provide for her and their children, may be entitled to the custody of her children, and, as a "_feme sole trader_," empowered to transact business and acquire a separate property, which shall be subject to her own disposal during life, and liable for the maintenance and education of her children.

The lady's name was Euphemia, and Miss White addressed her thus: "Feme, thou female Falstaff." She took some notice of me, and began to talk of the gayeties of her youth, and especially of a ball given at Newport during the war, at which she had received especial attention.

The husband pursues, but in vain, and the Fabliau thus concludes:--) A l'ostel li vilains retorne, et lors sa feme en araisone: 'diva,' fait il, 'et quar me dis coment tu perdis les pertris?' cele li dist 'se diex m'aït, tantost que li prestres me vit, si me prïa, se tant l'amasse, que je les pertris li moustrasse, quar moult volentiers les verroit et je le menai la tout droit ou je les avoie couvertes.