What is COLLATIO BONORUM? Definition of COLLATIO BONORUM in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
Lat. In the civil law. The obligation on successors to an inheritance to return to the common inheritance gifts received from the ancestor during his lifetime. In re Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., 163 N.Y.S. 961, 967, 99 Misc. 420; In re Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., 168 N.Y.S. 952, 956, 181 App.Div. 642. A joining together or contribution of goods into a common fund.
This occurs where a portion of money, advanced by the father to a son or daughter, is brought into hotchpot, in order to have an equal distributory share of his personal estate at his death. See Collation.
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