Hotchpot

HODGE-PODGE, or Hotchpotch. The blending and mixing property belonging to different persons, in order to divide it equally.

2 Bl. Comm. 190.

The bringing together all the personal estate of the deceased, with the advancements he has made to his children, in order that the same may be divided agreeably to the provisions of the statute for the distribution of intestates' estates. In bringing an advancement into hotchpot, the donee is not required to account for the profits of the thing given. For example, he is not required to bring into hotchpot the produce of negroes, nor the interest of money. The property must be accounted for at its value when given.

1 Wash. (Va.) 224; 17 Mass. 358; 3 Pick. (Mass.) 450; 2 Desaus. (S. C.) 127; 3 Rand. (Va.) 117, 559.

See "Advancement."

See Advancement.