Hotchpot

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; 2 Bl. Comm. 190.

Hotchpot, or the putting in hotchpot, ls 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 honorum, or collation of the civll law.

See Law v. Smith, 2 R. I. 249; Ray v. Loper, 65 Mo. 472; Jackson v. Jackson, 28 Miss. 680, 64 Am. Dec. 114; Thompson v. Carmichael, 3 Sandf. Ch. (N. Y.) 120.