meum et tuum

American  

[me-oom et too-oom, mee-uhm et too-uhm, -tyoo-] / ˈmɛ ʊm ɛt ˈtu ʊm, ˈmi əm ɛt ˈtu əm, -ˈtyu- /

Latin.

1. mine and thine.

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meum et tuum British  

/ ˈmeɪʊm ɛt ˈtuːʊm /

1. mine and thine: used to express rights to property

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Etymology

Origin of meum et tuum

C16: neuter of mēus mine and tuus yours

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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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And when she could do no more to beautify her person Sally turned again to the clothes-press, by now so far gone in self-indulgence, her moral sense so insidiously sapped by the sheer sensual delight she had of all this pilfered luxury, that she could contemplate without a qualm less venial experiments with the law of meum et tuum.

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