sui juris

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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.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

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

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

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