dum sola

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dum sola - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  DUM SOLA. While single or unmarried. This phrase is applied to single women, 
  to denote that something has been done, or may be done, while the woman is 
  or was unmarried. Example, when a judgment is rendered against a woman dum 
  sola, and afterwards she marries, the scire facias to revive, the judgment 
  must be against both husband and wife.