Legal Definition and Related Resources of Capita
Meaning of Capita
Literally it means heads; figuratively, means persons.
Capita Alternative Definition
(Lat.) By heads. An expression of frequent occurrence in laws regulating the distribution of the estates of persons dying intestate. When all the persons entitled to shares in the distribution are of the same degree of kindred to the deceased person (e. g., when all are grandchildren), and claim directly from him in their own right, and not through an intermediate relation, they take per capita, that is, equal shares, or share and share alike. But when they are of different degrees of kindred (e. g., some the children, others the grandchildren or the great-grandchildren, of the deceased) , those more remote take per stirpern, or per stirpes, that is, they take respectively the shares their parents (or other relation standing in the same degree with them of the surviving kindred entitled, who are in the nearest degree of kindred to the intestate) would have taken had they respectively survived the intestate. Reeve, Descent, Introd. xxvii. Also, 1 Rop. Leg. 126, 130. See “Per Capita;” “Per Stirpes;” “Stirpes.”
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Capita, Per, Issue, Per Capita, Per Stirpes.
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See Also
“Caput; in capita; per capita.”
Concept of Capita in the context of Real Property
A short definition of Capita: Literally, heads. Commonly, persons individually. See also: Per Capita.
Concept of Capita in the context of Real Property
A short definition of Capita: Literally, heads. Commonly, persons individually. See also: Per Capita.
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See Also
- Caput
- Capita
Concept of “Capita”
Traditional meaning of capita in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Heads; persons. Per capita: by heads; per head; in distinction from per stirpem, by stock; by way of representation; see CAPUT.
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Notes and References
- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Capita”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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