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suum cuique

[ soo-oom kooi-kwe; English soo-uhm kahy-kwee, kwahy-, kwee-kwe ]

Latin.
  1. to each his own; to each what rightfully belongs to him.


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Example Sentences

Mille hominum species et mentis discolor usus; Velle suum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno.

Men work under protection of the public authority, as you say, charged to secure to each one his own—suum cuique.

Its validity shall be left to the decision of those who venerate the motto of Tom Hearne—Suum cuique.

Sin autem id non sit eius modi, suum cuique incommodum ferendum est potius quam de alterius commodis detrahendum.

Justitia est constans et perpetua voluntas jus suum cuique tribuendi.

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