collatio bonorum
collatio bonorum (k[schwa]-lay-shee-oh b[schwa]-nor-[schwa]m). [Latin “collation of goods”] Civil law. The bringing into hotchpot of goods or money advanced by a parent to a child, so that the parent’s personal estate will be equally distributed among the parent’s children. Pl. collationes bonorum. See HOTCHPOT. “[I]f the estates so given them, by way of advancement, are […]