While marriage and " feme covert " ( married women whose legal rights were absorbed by those of their husband's ) left Grace without legal rights, politics had erased her social standing.
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Under traditional English common law an adult unmarried woman was considered to have the legal status of " feme sole ", while a married woman had the status of " feme covert ".
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Under traditional English common law an adult unmarried woman was considered to have the legal status of " feme sole ", while a married woman had the status of " feme covert ".
24.
In France, in Germany, in Sweden, Norway and Denmark-I do not know a single European nation were the phenomena of " feme sole " existed in the 18th-century, except for England.
25.
While the Weimar legal system rigorously prosecuted veterans of Marxist death squads after the German Revolution of 1918 1919 and the political activities of the Bavarian Soviet Republic, little was done to investigate the " Feme " murders.
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In contrast to wives, women who never married or who were widowed maintained control over their property and inheritance, owned land and controlled property disposal, since by law any unmarried adult female was considered to be a feme sole.
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In that role, he opposed an amnesty for those convicted of Feme murders, expressed regret about the state of political discourse and criticised the bias that made many judges treat right-wing defendants more leniently than left-wing ones.
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As a result, he left the property at Graeme Park in her name, though under colonial law, Elizabeth was a " feme covert ", meaning that all of her property belonged to her husband when they were married.
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In the most recent reorganization, in December, Toledo, under pressure from old-line politicians in the governing party, got rid of Peru's first-evez feme tax system and the government bureaucracy won her a host of enemies.
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Was England truly the only European nation were the " feme sole " existed, or was there in fact any other 18th-century European country were adult unmarried women were of legal majority prior to the reforms of the late 19th-century?
