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Per Cent

An abbreviation of the Latin “per centum" meaning by the hundred, or so many parts in the hundred, or so many hundredths. See Blakeslee v. Mans-field, 66 Iii. App. 119; Code Va. 1887, 8 5 (Code 1904, p. 7

Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)