sui juris

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No Roman patrician was ever imbued with a greater sense of the sui juris of the sacred rights with which "the city" had invested her.

From The Fourth Estate, vol.1 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

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

Quoth he, Th' one half of man, his mind, Is, sui juris, unconfin'd, And cannot be laid by the heels, 1015 Whate'er the other moiety feels.

From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel

Wherefore, since the girl is not sui juris, she must be in the power, either of Virginius, who says he is her father, or of Claudius, who says he is her master.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus

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