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Line of descent
Answer for the clue "Line of descent ", 6 letters:
stirps
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A branch of a family. 2 A progenitor of a branch of a family. 3 (context zoology botany English) A superfamily of animals or plants. 4 (plural of stirp English)Category:English plurals
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stirps \Stirps\, n.; pl. Stirpes . [L., stem, stock.] (Law) Stock; race; family. --Blackstone. (Bot.) A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.
Usage examples of stirps.
Oscar, copyright passed right to you per stirpes like anything else he.
He had cashed in his shares and as a result was able to leave both his daughters some money, which was held in trusts per stirpes for them.
But I thought it was already probated, I mean why in God's name would we contest it if we're the sole beneficiaries, equal shares and per stirpes and the rest of that nonsense?
Jubal let it go on until every newsman there knew more than he wanted to know about dower and curtesy, consanguinean and uterine, per stirpes and per capita, and related mysteries.
Code this and per stirpes that rescuing them from the furnace with the rest of Father's papers while he sat here ready to burn down the house with those vile Picayunes.