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- Latin · derived fromper“by, through”
- English todayper stirpes
Words from the same roots
Latinper all →
perparparamountparamourparavailparboilper centumper curiamper diem
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
per stirpes
Today it means: A method of distributing an estate to the descendants or heirs of a deceased legatee in which the estate is divided equally among the branches of a family or designated heirs, without regard to differing numbers of people in different branches. Full definition →
Latin per