Genealogy Legal Terms:

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Next friend - One acting for benefit of infant, married woman, or other person not sui juris, without being regularly appointed guardian.

Sui Juris - Of his own right; possessing full social and civil rights; not under any legal disability, or the power of another, or guardianship.