(purr stir-peas) adj. Latin for "by roots," by representation. The term is commonly used in wills and trusts to describe the distribution when a beneficiary dies before the person whose estate is being divided. Example: "I leave $100,000 to my daughter, Eleanor, and if she shall predecease me, to her children, per stirpes." Thus, if Eleanor dies be...
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Per stirpes (z; `by branch`) is a legal term in Latin. An estate of a decedent is distributed per stirpes if each branch of the family is to receive an equal share of an estate. When the heir in the first generation of a branch predeceased the decedent, the share that would have been given to the heir would be distributed among the heir`s issue......
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A method for distributing the assets of an individual who dies without a valid will. The Latin means for each descendant.
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Dividing property between a number of beneficiaries according to the branches of the family instead of equally between them.
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The most common way of distributing an estate such that if one of the children is dead, his or her children share equally in his or her share. Also know as By Right of Representation.
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It is a latin word meaning" by roots" or "by right of representation". If mentioned, it indicates representing somone who is not present or cannot be present.Commonly it is used by the person who make his Will and he declare the condition that if the beneficiary dies much ahead of him, the estate of his will be equally distribut...
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Distribution 'by stocks', i.e. by descent according to the branches of a family tree (to be contrasted with per capita)
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Lat. Term used to designate a system of inheritance under which children take among them the share which their parent would have taken had he survived the decedent. Thus the children are said to claim their shares by representing their parent.
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