Collatio bonorum (a contribution of goods). Where a portion or money, advanced by the father to a son or daughter, is brought into hotchpot (q.v.), in order to have an equal distributory share of his personal estate at his death, according to the intent of the Statutes 22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10 (the Statute of Distribution). Repealed and replaced by the (English) Administration of Estates Act 1925, ss. 46, 47, and 49
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