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per stirpes

per stir·pes [ pər stúr pz ]


adverb 
Definition:
 
finance law equally among offspring: relating to a method of dividing the estate of a deceased person equally between the the children of the deceased. The part of the estate that would have gone to one of the children who has died is divided among the children of this person.

[< modern Latin, literally "by roots."]
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