sui juris
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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
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
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
Therefore, it is by no means necessary for a person to be sui juris or capable of acting in his or her own right, in order to qualify himself or herself to act for others.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Appius for his own purposes, in interpreting his own law, introduces a distinction betwixt those who were sui juris, entirely free, and those who were subject to the patria potestas.
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus
