‘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 ....’
1851, Thomas W Waterman, American Chancery Digest, vol. II:
A deed of a feme covert, to be valid, must be executed by the husband also.
1986, Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America:
Connecticut courts failed to recognize feme couvert property rights until 1723, when the legislature finally passed an act significantly reforming the law on conveyancing.