Collate

collation

collation [French, from Latin collatio bonorum (in Roman law) contribution made by emancipated heirs to an estate under an intestate succession, literally, bringing together of goods] in the civil law of Louisiana : the actual or supposed return of goods to the mass of the succession that is made by an heir who received property in advance for the purpose of having the property divided with the rest of the succession compare hotchpot NOTE: Children and grandchildren of a decedent must return anything that they received in advance by donation inter vivos. Further, they cannot claim legacies made to them unless made expressly by the decedent as an advantage over their coheirs to be received besides their portion of the succession. Donations made to a grandchild by a grandparent during the life of the child's father are not subject to collation. A collation may be made in kind by the actual delivering up of the thing given, or by taking less from the succession in proportion to the v...

collate -lat·ed -lat·ing [back-formation from collation, from Latin collatio (bonorum) bringing together (of property) for distribution to heirs] vt in the civil law of Louisiana : to return to an estate for equal division [children or grandchildren, coming to the succession of their fathers, mothers or other ascendants, must what they have received "Louisiana Civil Code"] vi in the civil law of Louisiana : to return property or legacies to an estate for division [shall then be obliged to up to the sum necessary "Louisiana Civil Code"] ...

Collate

Collate. See COLLATION....

Collation to a benefice

Collation to a benefice, where the bishop and patron are one and the same person, in which case the bishop cannot present the clergyman to himself, but does, by the one act of collation or conferring the benefice, the whole that is done in common cases both by presentation and institution....

Collatable

Capable of being collated...

Collation

The act of collating or comparing a comparison of one copy er thing as of a book or manuscript with another of a like kind comparison in general...

Collator

One who collates manuscripts books etc...

Collation

Collation, the comparison of a copy with its original to ascertain its correctness; or the report of the officer who made the comparison....

Collation of seals

Collation of seals, when upon the same label one seal was set on the back or reverse of the other....

Advowson

Advowson [fr. advocare, Lat.], a right of presentation to, or the patronage of, a church or spiritual living; the person possessed of this right or patronage being called the patron or advocate (patronus aut advocatus), on account of his obligation to protect and defend the privileges of the particular benefice. An advowson is in the nature of a temporal property and spiritual trust. For the origin and history of advowsons, consult Mirehouse on Advowsons, pp. 1-6.There are several kinds of advowsons, viz.:--(I.) Presentative advowsons, subdivided into,Appendant.In gross, andPartly appendant, and partly in gross.(II.) Collative advowsons.(I.) A presentative advowson appendant is a right of patronage annexed to the possession of some corporeal hereditament. Thus, where an advowson has immemorially passed together with a manor or reputed manor by a simple grant of such manor, without particularly referring to the advowson, it is then said to be appendant, i.e., annexed to the demesnes of ...

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