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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The blending and mixing property belonging to different persons, in order to divide it equally.
2 Bl. Comm. 190.
Anciently applied to the mixing and blending of lands given to one daughter in frank marriage, with those descending to her and her sisters in fee-simple, for the purpose of dividing the whole equally among them; without which the daughter who held in frank marriage could have no share in the lands in fee-simple.
Litt. §§ 267, 268; Co. Litt. 177a.
Applied in modern law to the throwing the amount of an advancement made to a particular child, in real or personal estate, into the common stock, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children.
2 Kent, Comm. 421, 422.
This answers to or resembles the collatio bonorum, or collation of the civil law.