sui juris
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of sui juris
First recorded in 1605–15, sui juris is from Latin suī jūris “of one's own right”
Example Sentences
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It makes this nature sui juris, incommunicable, and entirely independent in the mode of its actual being: leaving untouched, of course, the essential dependence of the created “subsisting thing” or “person” on the Creator.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
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 Titus Livius
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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 Peter Coffey
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