sui juris

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With the sudden promotion to the category of persons sui juris, the poor "child" was a prey to great distress, everything worried her, everything was an insuperable difficulty.

From The Grandee by Palacio Valdés, Armando

From the time of Diocletian the woman who was sui juris was a subject of the state without intermediary, just as her brother or husband was, and she enjoyed free disposition of herself.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

For we never, in our natural experience, encounter an existing individual substance, or nature, or agent, that is not distinct, autonomous, independent, sui juris, and incommunicable in its mode of being and acting.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Entering upon the time when practically he becomes sui juris, he has far too much power and influence to be treated with levity.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

In most of the States, and by the common law of England, the age of twenty-one years was fixed as what they term the majority, when a person becomes sui juris.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady