Stirps, Stripes

Concept of “Stirps, Stripes”

Traditional meaning of stirps, stripes in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) A stock; root of descent; family. Per stipitem:by stock, by families, by right of representation of an ancestor, not per capita; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 217, 517.

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1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Stirps, Stripes”, 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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