Hotchpot

Hotchpot (the same word as Hotch-potch in the culinary sense), a phrase used in English law to denote that, where one child has already received an advancement out of the father's estate, that child must bring such portion into hotchpot before he will be allowed to share with the other children, under the statute of distributions, after the father's death. In other words, a child who has got money from the father to place him in business, &c., must treat that as a payment to account of his share at the father's death. The eldest son is not required to bring into hotchpot the land which he takes as heir. A similar, but not identical, doctrine exists in Scotland under the name of collation.