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Example sentences for "loco parentis"

  • Once make a man a guardian and, as I have remarked, he forthwith stands in loco parentis, and the ward is his child in the eye of the LAW.

  • Besides, even on the ground that he is in loco parentis, you must remember that there are limits even to a father's authority.

  • If I weren't acting in loco parentis--" "I know!

  • In loco parentis or just plain loco, you'll get the licking instead of me!

  • Lord knows you've tried, and all you've attained is the state of in loco parentis instead of parens.

  • The full names, ages, occupations and domiciles of their parents, or, if they are dead, the same particulars of those who replace them in loco parentis.

  • Marriage is forbidden between ascendants and descendants ad infinitum, and in the collateral line between brothers and sisters, consanguinian or uterine, and between all collaterals, one of whom stands in loco parentis to the other.

  • The requirements as to age, consent of parents, or of persons standing in loco parentis are the same in this State as throughout the rest of the Commonwealth and have been set forth in the first part of this chapter.

  • I admit we did; but under the circumstances--" "I stand in loco parentis.

  • Told me last night after prayers that he was in loco parentis," Beetle grunted.

  • Evil and brief had been their careers under his eye; and as one standing in loco parentis to their yet uncontaminated associates, he was bound to take his precautions.

  • The puppy at his feet was howling uncomforted for the best beloved who was so strangely missing from the delightful combination which he had so joyously accepted in loco parentis.

  • Opportunity and Fates alone stand for them in loco parentis.

  • And around them gambolled the wise little dog, no longer apprehensive, but unutterably content with what the God of all good little doggies had so mercifully sent to him in loco parentis.

  • These three men who stand in loco parentis toward you, as you say, and your spiritual adviser, Dr.

  • Anita continued, giving him all the details of the minister's visit, and the magnanimous promise of her father's three associates to stand in loco parentis toward her.

  • Do not I and my friends stand in loco parentis to her?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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