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 Fellow Commoner.Feme-covert. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Felo de Se.
 
The act of a suicide when he commits self murder. Murder is felony, and a man who murders himself commits this felony—felo de se.   1
        “A felo-de-se, therefore, is he that deliberately puts an end to his own existence.”—Blackstone: Commentaries, book iv. chap. xiv. p. 189.
 


 Fellow Commoner.Feme-covert. 

 
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