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OAKLEY: I'll be looking for your string vest next week, Feme.
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OAKLEY: Now, when you get out from your maps and your carts, Feme, and you're talking to people outside, do they hold your personally responsible for the weather you've told them about?
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OAKLEY: Feme, weather reporters are becoming superstars these days -- no doubt you've got your Hollywood and sitcom offers on the way.
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The English common law concerning coverture and feme sole status was best described in 1700 in a legal treatise titled Baron and Feme: A Treatise of the Common Law
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She, the daughter of Sir Hugh Feme the businessman.
Strip Jack Rankin, Ian, 1960- 1992
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_Baron and Feme_, in English law, is a phrase used for husband and wife, in relation to each other, who are accounted as one person.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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_Baron and Feme_, in heraldry, is the term used when the coats-of-arms of a man and his wife are borne per pale in the same escutcheon, the man's being always on the dexter side, and the woman's on the sinister.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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Feme, had died she had had thirty-two; but probably a good many more would come the next day; the funeral would start at eleven o'clock from the vicarage, and they should beat Mrs. Rawlingson easily.
Of Human Bondage 1915
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Feme sole, property of, not liable for husband's debts, A. 10, S. 6.
A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913 Robert Digges Wimberly 1913
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Feme sole not liable for husband's debts, A. 10, S. 6.
A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913 Robert Digges Wimberly 1913
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