per stir|pes

per stir|pes
per stir|pes «puhr STUR peez»,
Law. by stocks or families (used of succession to property in which the descendants of one heir share the portion which would have come to that heir if living): »

to divide an estate per stirpes.

[< Medieval Latin per by, according to, and Latin stirpes, plural of stirps, stirpis stock; family; (originally) stem, stalk]

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