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Definition of Hotchpot
1. n. A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.
Definition of Hotchpot
1. Noun. (legal) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, especially in the case of divorce or intestacy ¹
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Definition of Hotchpot
1. the combining of properties in order to divide them equally among heirs [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hotchpot
Literary usage of Hotchpot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"shall have the profits of the thing by turns, in the same manner as they take
the advowson.'11 § 269. c. hotchpot.—There is yet another consideration ..."
2. Key and Elphinstone's Compendium of Precedents in Conveyancing by Thomas Key, Howard Warburton Elphinstone (1899)
"... of the into hotchpot notes to Etc parte Pye and Montagu v. ... interests directed
to be brought into hotchpot must be valued (Ealr* v. ..."
3. The Principles of German Civil Law by Ernest Joseph Schuster (1907)
"Equalization of Shares between Issue (hotchpot provisions). 478. Such of the
issue of the deceased as are statutory heirs must, on the division of the ..."
4. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1794)
"... the eß en Еп^И/Ьл pudding ; car en tiff that this word (hotchpot) is in Eng- Et
... (hotchpot) one!v to her fe'fe. ... (n hotchpot, Ji le baron ft ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"hotchpot.—(See ADVANCEMENTS). This word hotchpot is generally understood to
signify mixing and blending together, and conveys much the same idea as the ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1827)
"Therefore of Distribu- the child, advanced by her father in his life, could not
tug advances , ° be called on to bring her share into hotchpot (77). by way ..."
7. A Compendium of Precedents in Conveyancing: Comprising the Forms Required in by Thomas Key (1883)
"... brought into account in the way of hotchpot as against such child [or his or
her issue] in the division of the sd trust premes representing my residuary ..."
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