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Stirpes
(gcide) | Stirps \Stirps\, n.; pl. Stirpes. [L., stem, stock.]
1. (Law) Stock; race; family. --Blackstone.
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2. (Bot.) A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.
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STIRPES
(bouvier) | STIRPES, descents. The root, stem, or stock of a tree. Figuratively, it
signifies, in law, that person from whom a family is descended, and also the
kindred or family.
2. It is chiefly used in estimating the several interests of the
different kindred, in the distribution of an intestate's estate. 2 Bl. Com.
517 and vide Descent; Line.
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PER STIRPES
(bouvier) | PER STIRPES. By stock; by roots.
2. When, for example, a man dies intestate, leaving children and
grandchildren, whose parents are deceased, the estate is to be divided not
per capita, that is, by each of the children and grandchildren taking a
share, but per stirpes, by each of the children taking a share, and the
grandchildren, the children of a deceased child, taking a share to be
afterwards divided among themselves per capita.
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STIRPES
(bouvier) | STIRPES, descents. The root, stem, or stock of a tree. Figuratively, it
signifies, in law, that person from whom a family is descended, and also the
kindred or family.
2. It is chiefly used in estimating the several interests of the
different kindred, in the distribution of an intestate's estate. 2 Bl. Com.
517 and vide Descent; Line.
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