Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of legal age and capable of managing one's own affairs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Roman law, the status of any one who was not subject to the patria potestas.
- In modern legal usage, of full age and capacity, and legally capable of managing one's own affairs, as distinguished from infants, lunatics, and woman under common-law disqualifications of coverture.
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- adjective Having the
right and thecapability to manage one's own affairs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin suī iūris : suī, of one's own + iūris, genitive of iūs, right, law.]
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Latin of one's own right
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kewpid commented on the word sui juris
Of full age and (legal) capacity.
November 3, 2007