Crossword-Solution: STIRPES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The Gens, as they termed this general relation or clanship, was subdivided into families, in Familias vel Stirpes; and those of the same family were called Agnati.

Heirs were firstly sons, then daughters, then grandsons per stirpes, then granddaughters per stirpes, then brothers, and then sisters of the decedent.

Strabo describing Jericho: ‘Ibi est palmetum, cui immixtae sunt etiam ahae stirpes hortenses, locus ferax palmis abundans, spatio stadiorum centum, totus irriguus: ibi est Regis Balsami paradisus.’ ”—_Essay on Gardens._ In the same famous essay Temple speaks of a friend, whose conduct and prudence he characteristically admires.

Indeed we need not care whether the division _per stirpes_ or _per capita_, our share is not the less in either case.

There has been some difference of opinion as to whether if all the children have predeceased their parent but have left issue, such grandchildren take as between themselves _per stirpes_ as representatives of their parent or _per capita_ as next of kin.