PER STIRPES - Steven J. Coker

Subject: PER STIRPES
From: Steven J. Coker
Date: October 01, 1998

Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier
  CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

PER STIRPES. By stock; by roots. 
   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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