collatio bonorum

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
COLLATIO BONORUM, descent, distribution. Where a portion or money advanced 
to a son or daughter, is brought into @botchpot, in order to have an equal 
distributive share of the ancestor's personal estate. The same rule obtains 
in the civil law. Civil Code of Louis. 1305; Diet. de Jur. mot Collation; 
Merlin Rep. mot Collation. 
    

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