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per stirpes
[ pur stur-peez, per ]
adjective
, Law.
- pertaining to or noting a method of dividing an estate in which the descendants of a deceased person share as a group in the portion of the estate to which the deceased would have been entitled.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of per stirpes1
First recorded in 1675–85, per stirpes is from Latin per stirpēs literally, “by stocks”
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Example Sentences
In the absence of these, equality ruled between individuals; they shared 'per capita,' and not 'per stirpes.'
From Project Gutenberg
Indeed we need not care whether the division per stirpes or per capita, our share is not the less in either case.
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