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per capita definition - legal

adj

Latin

By or through the head. According to the head count, or number of individuals; that is, divided equally among everyone involved.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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