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  • Livia herself, now that her father was dead and she was sui iuris independent, save for the supervision of a guardian who oversaw certain of her affairs, was legally free to leave Tiberius Nero if she wanted to.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • The act was called adoptio when the person being adopted, who could be male or female, was previously in the patria potestas of another; when, however, the male being adopted was himself not under paternal power sui iuris or even a paterfamilias himself, it was called adrogatio.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • Ukrainians, Ruthenians, Greeks, etc. etc. - everybody has his own sui iuris church, with its catholicos/patriarch/metropolitan/whatever, plenty of bishops ordinaries on the same territory.

    Light from the East: The Russian Catholic Parish in Lyons, France 2009

  • More recently, in his paper Anglican Uniatism, Nichols says that the concept of an Anglican Church "sui iuris"

    Slow posting continues till mid-August... 2009

  • But an Anglican Uniate body, defined with discernment and sensitivity, could I believe, join the ranks of the Churches sui iuris which give Catholicism an indispensable dimension of its plenary or holistic quality.

    Slow posting continues till mid-August... 2009

  • These are ritual churches "sui iuris" - in other words, churches with their own rites, cultures and canon law.

    Slow posting continues till mid-August... 2009

  • Marie Munk and Margarete Berent, two of the early female law graduates in Germany, completed their law studies with a Doktor iuris degree, but were not admitted to the state examinations before World War I.

    Lawyers in Germany and Austria. 2009

  • How come that among 23 sui iuris Curches there's only one Western Church, and 22 Eastern or Oriental, split along ethnic boundaries, many of them if not all using vernacularum for a long time?

    Light from the East: The Russian Catholic Parish in Lyons, France 2009

  • As for the legal status of the principle, it is a generally recognized principle of International Environmental Law, as supported by growing evidence of State practice; however the belief that such practice is determined by a legal obligation (opinio iuris) is lacking in at least some members of the international community.

    Common but differentiated responsibility 2007

  • Her troubles I lay at the door of far too much money, that sui iuris status you keep throwing at me, and her first husband, Publius Clodius.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

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