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Cujus est dare ejus est disponere

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Who has the gift of anything should have the disposition of it. Cujus est divisio alterius est electio. Whichever one has the division, the other has the choice.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Wing. Max. 53. Whose it is to give, his it is to dispose; or, as Broom says, "the be-stower of a gift has a right to regulate its disposui." Broom, Max. 459, 461, 463, 464.