Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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collation
n. 1. The comparison of a copy with its original to ascertain its correctness; the report of the officer who made the comparison. 2. An estimate of the value of advancements made by an intestate to his or her children so that the estate may be divided in accordance with the intestacy statute. 3. Eccles. law. The act (by a bishop) of conferring a benefice where the bishop holds the right of advowson, thus combining the acts of presentation and institution. - Also termed collation to a benefice. See aduowson collatiue under ADvOWSON. - collate (ka-layt), ub. - collator (ka-lay-tar), n.
collation to a benefice
See COLLATION.
collatione facta uni post mortem alterius
[Law Latin "collation to a benefice made to one after the death of the other"] Hist. A writ directed to the Court of Common Pleas, requesting that the court order a bishop to appoint a clerk in place of another who had died pending appointment.
collatione heremitagii
[Law Latin "collation of hermitage"] Hist. A writ by which the Crown conferred the keeping of a hermitage on aclerk.
contra formam collationis
[Latin "against the form of a collation"] Hist. A writ to regain lands given to a religious society in exchange for perpetual alms. The writ was usu. sought by an heir of the person who had given the land away.