Collation

In Civil Law. The bringing together of property into a common fund; hotchpot.

2 Bl. Comm. 617.

Particularly applied to the supposed or real return to the mass of the succession, which an heir makes of the property he received in advance of his share, or otherwise, in order that such property may be divided together with the other effects of the succession. Civ. Code La. art.

1305.

In Ecclesiastical Law. The act by which the bishop who has the bestowing of a benefice gives it to an incumbent. In Practice. The comparison of a copy with its original, in order to ascertain its correctness and conformity. The report of the officer who made the comparison is also called a collation.