feme covert

aviovaimo puhekieltä A married woman.
1817, (w), Rob Roy, IX:

‘you, Diana Vernon, spinstress, not being a femme couverte, and being a convict popish recusant, are bound to repair to your own dwelling, and that by the nearest way, under penalty of being held felon to the king ....’

A deed of a feme covert, to be valid, must be executed by the husband also.

Connecticut courts failed to recognize feme couvert property rights until 1723, when the legislature finally passed an act significantly reforming the law on conveyancing.