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Capita
Matched in: Term Capita
per capita
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Capita, Per
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Per capita
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head
any of a number of individuals by heads : with an equal share to each individual : per capita used in the rules of intestate succession in Louisiana
per stirpes
[the estate was divided per stirpes] used of a method of distributing an esp. intestate estate compare per capita NOTE: Per stirpes distribution provides for division of an estate equally among the members of the group of
Gavelkind
jure representationis. But where the nephews succeeded with an uncle, the descent was per stripes and not per capita; and so from the nature of thing it must be where the sons of several brothers succeeded, and
Per stripes
Per stripes (by the right of representation-literally, according to the stocks). See PER CAPITA.
Rule of Pathnibhagam
number the property is divided according to the number of wives he had, rather than on a per capita basis, Kaliamma v. Janardhanan Pillai, AIR 1973 SC 1134: (1973) 1 SCC 644: (1973) 3 SCR 503.
Status
A full Roman citizen must have possessed the status liberatatis, famili', and civitatis, which are sometimes called tria capita. See Sandars' Justinian; Mackenzie's Roman Law, 4th Edn. p. 81. The law of status thus classified men as
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