sui juris

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At least, he is major and sui juris, and may please himself in the matter of his conversation.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

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

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