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in loco parentis

ADVERB
  1. in place of the parents
    we had to punish this child in loco parentis

How To Use in loco parentis In A Sentence

  • we had to punish this child in loco parentis
  • But extreme in loco parentis protection of legal adults from their own stupid decisions is a sick and dangerous idea, and one that's destined not just to fail but to backfire.
  • The staff have a position of trust; they stand in loco parentis to all the children for whom they are responsible.
  • Then, in 1971, the 26 amendment to the Constitution set the voting age at 18. So in loco parentis no longer really applied.
  • I had spent years serving in loco parentis, and I probably was more loco than parental at this point. INSIDERS
  • He objected to the admissibility of the paternity test, asserted that he stood in loco parentis to the child, and argued that public policy prevented appellant from bastardizing the child.
  • The Kentucky high court decided that in loco parentis justify justified that rule.
  • Sometimes the father decides the matter himself; sometimes he or the relative who stands in loco parentis calls for a plebiscit on the subject; for such an extension of the suffrage has gradually crept even into patriarchal institutions. The Soul of the Far East
  • It was a very great privilege to have been on such intimate terms with a wild creature, to have acted in loco parentis and watched him grow into a handsome adult bird.
  • Where complete and fubftential jufttce has. been done* a new trial will not bo granted, though the judge who tried the caufe may have been miilaken in point of law; as where an action was brought by a perfon for a violent affault on her niece, who lived with her, per quod ferv. ami/it, and the judge held that the aunt Hood in loco parentis, whereon large damages were given; — the plaintiff undertaking to pay the damages to the niece* and the niece not to proceed in an action which Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common pleas and Exchequer, alphabetically digest under proper heads;
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