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meum et tuum

[ me-oom et too-oom; English mee-uhm et too-uhm, -tyoo- ]

Latin.
  1. mine and thine.


meum et tuum

/ ˈmeɪʊm É›t ˈtuËÊŠm /

(no translation)

  1. mine and thine: used to express rights to property
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of meum et tuum1

C16: neuter of ³¾Å§³Ü²õ mine and tuus yours
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Example Sentences

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It was here I received my first remembered lesson in “meum et tuum.â€

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Geoff was all right--if he had only been able to prevent money from slipping from between his fingers, had been gifted with a sense of meum et tuum--not a nicer fellow in the world!

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This determination of character created difficulties to him; for his freedom was not always regulated by the doctrines of meum et tuum, or, of the great Blackstone, “on the rights of persons,†and consequences ensued that were occasionally injurious to Sir Jeffery’s eyes, face, and nose.

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Full of zeal for the improvement of society, Owen conceived that he had discovered the cause of most of its evils in the laws of meum et tuum; and that a state of society where there is nothing mine or thine, would be a paradise begun.

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At the island, and there you are With the long, strong arm which reaches far, And there are the natives who kneel and bow, And where are your meum et tuum now?

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