sui juris

American  

[soo-ahy joor-is, soo-ee] / ˈsu aɪ ˈdʒʊər ɪs, ˈsu i /

adjective

Law.

1. capable of managing one's affairs or assuming legal responsibility.

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sui juris British  

/ ˈsuːaɪ ˈdʒʊərɪs /

adjective

1. (usually postpositive) law of full age and not under disability; legally competent to manage one's own affairs; independent

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Etymology

Origin of sui juris

First recorded in 1605–15, sui juris is from Latin suī jūris “of one's own right”

Example Sentences

As regards persons in private custody, e.g. persons not sui juris detained by those not entitled to their guardianship or lunatics, or persons kidnapped, habeas corpus ad subjiciendum seems not to have been the ordinary common law remedy.

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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.

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In the years before the war, when the influx of patients from all parts made me independent of the favor or disfavor of my native city, I followed the rule of not treating anyone who was not sui juris, was not independent of all other persons in his essential relations of life.

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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.

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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.

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Related Words

• autonomous
• democratic
• freed
• independent
• separate