Collatio Bonorum

In the civil law. A bringing together of goods or property into a common fund; especially of property received of a testator by way of advancement, for the purpose of a more equitable division among the heirs.

Dig. 37. 6. 1.

Cooper's Justin.

Inst. Notes, *674, 575.

This term has been applied, in the common law, to the bringing of any portion or sum of money advanced by a father to a son or daughter into hotchpot, or common fund, in order to have an equal share with the other children, of his personal estate when he dies, in pursuance of the statute of distributions.

Tomlins, 2-^/. Com. 617. 4 ITenfs Com. 419. 1 Sumner's B. 421.

See Hotchpot. In Louisiana, this return of property to the mass of the succession is termed collation, or, in French, rapport, Ciinl Code of ZouisiaiiM, Art. 1306 — 1367.

4 Kent's Com. 419, note.