Mesorat%20hashas for Kiddushin 92:1
ושמע מינה מעות בעלמא חוזרים
[iii] Money in general is returnable.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If one gives money for kiddushin, which for some reason is invalid, the money is not a gift but a deposit, and returnable; otherwise, even if the first only is worth a perutah, the kiddushin is valid. For when he completes his statement, the first dates, already eaten, are neither a debt, since they need not be returned, nor a gift, not having been given as such. It would therefore be as though he had stated: Be thou betrothed unto me with this (the first date) , but let not the betrothal take effect until I have given you some more,' in which case she becomes betrothed when she receives the others even if the first has been consumed.');"><sup>1</sup></span> It was stated: If one betroths his sister:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which of course is invalid.');"><sup>2</sup></span> Rab said: The money is returnable; Samuel ruled: The money is a gift.
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