Stirps

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879), Bouvier (1839)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Stock of descent. See Per stirpes.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat. A root or stock of descent or title. Taking property by right of representation is called "succession per stirpes," in opposition to inking in one's own right or as a principal, which is termed "inking per capita." See Rotmanskey v. Heiss, 86 Md. 633, 39 Atl. 415.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

pi stirpes, I.

In the civil law. A stock; a source of descent.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

A root, stock; source of descent. Taking property by representation is called succession in stirpes or per stirpes, according to the roots; since all branches inherit the share that their root, whom they represent, would have inherited. Whence "stipital distribution." Opposed, distribution per capita, by heads or individuals.'' See Caput, Per capita.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Stipes, I. A stock; root of descent; family. Per stipitem: by stock, by families, by right of representation of an ancestor, not per capita.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

A stock; a source of descent. Used by law-writers frequently in the plural form, — stirpes. See Pek Stirpes.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

descents, the root, stem, or stock of a tree. Figuratively it signifies, in law, that person from whom a family is descended, and also the kindred or family. It is chiefly used in estimating the several interests of the different kindred, in the distribution of an intestate’s estate. 2 Bl. Com. 517; and vide Descent; Line.