sui juris
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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 Armando Palacio Valdés
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
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 Armando Palacio Vald?s
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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