PER STIRPES. By stock; by roots.
2. When, for example, a man dies intestate, leaving children and
grandchildren, whose parents are deceased, the estate is to be divided not
per capita, that is, by each of the children and grandchildren taking a
share, but per stirpes, by each of the children taking a share, and the
grandchildren, the children of a deceased child, taking a share to be
afterwards divided among themselves per capita.