The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Feme \Feme\ (f[e^]m or f[a^]m), n. [OF. feme, F. femme.] (Old
   Law)
   A woman. --Burrill.
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   Feme covert (Law), a married woman. See Covert, a., 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.
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Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

FEME, or, more properly,