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Definition of Stirpes
1. Noun. (legal) branches, lines of descent, used in the legal expression '''per stirpes'''. (plural of stirps) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stirpes
1. stirps [n] - See also: stirps
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stirpes
Literary usage of Stirpes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"But Westbury, C., ' held that you must look to the number of families or stirpes
descended either from A. or В., and existing at the testator's death, ..."
2. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"is the construction of the English statute of distributions,1 viz., that claim- •
ants standing in equal degree take per capita and not per stirpes. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Legacies by Roper Stote Donnison Roper, Henry Hopley White (1847)
"The remaining subject for consideration under the present section is— 3.
When legatees take both per stirpes and per capita. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Legacies by Roper Stote Donnison Roper (1829)
"When legatees take both per stirpes and per capita. Where a testator bequeaths
personal estate to several persons as tenants in common, with a declaration ..."
5. The Jurist by Great Britain Courts (1865)
"Tho construction of this will appears to me to depend upon the question to whom
the expression " per stirpes" is to be applied. There can be no doubt, ..."
6. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"take per stirpes. If a person dying after this section takes ... but if in unequal
degree, per stirpes, unless a contrary intent is expressed in the will ". ..."
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