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king may bestow his presentation on another. Reg. Orig. 31. COLLATIONE HEREMITAGH. In old English law. A writ whereby the king con ferred the keeping of an hermitage upon a clerk. Reg. Orig. 303, 308. COLLECT. To gather together; to bring scattered things (assets, accounts, articles of property) into one mass or fund. To collect a debt or claim is to obtain pay ment or liquidation of it, either by personal solicitation or legal proceedings. White v. Case, 13 Wend. (N. Y.) 544; Ryan v. Tudor, 31 Kan. 366, 2 Pac. 797; Purdy v. Independ ence, 75 Iowa, 356, 39 N. W. 641; Mclnerny v. Reed, 23 Iowa, 414; Taylor v. Kearney County, 35 Neb. 381, 53 N. W. 211. —Collect on delivery. See C. O. D.—Col lector. One authorized to receive taxes or oth er impositions; as "collector of taxes." A per son appointed by a private person to collect the credits due him.— Collector of decedent's estate. A person temporarily appointed by the probate court to collect rents, assets, interest, bills receivable, etc., of a decedent's estate, and act for the estate in all financial matters re quiring immediate settlement. Such collector is usually appointed when there is protracted liti gation as to the probate of the will, or as to the person to take out administration, and his duties cease as soon as an executor or admin istrator is qualified.— Collector of the cus toms. An officer of the United States, ap pointed for the term of four years. Act Mav 15, 1820, § 1; 3 Story, U. S. Laws, 1790.— Col lection. Indorsement "for collection." See FOB COLLECTION. COLLEGA. In the civil law. One in vested with joint authority. A colleague; an associate. COLLEGATARIUS. Lat. In the civil law. A co-legatee. Inst. 2, 20, 8. COLLEGATORY. A co-legatee; a per son who has a legacy left to him in common with other persons. COLLEGE. An organized assembly or collection of persons, established by law, and empowered to co-operate for the perform ance- of some special function or for the pro motion of some common object, which may be educational, political, ecclesiastical, or scientific in its character. The assemblage of the cardinals at Rome is called a "college." So, in the United States, the body of presidential electors is called the "electoral college." In the most common use of the word, it designates an institution of learning (usually incorporated) which offers'instruction in the liberal arts and humanities and in' scientific branches, but not in the technical arts or those studies preparatory to admission to the professions. Com. v. Banks, 198 Pa. 397, 48 Atl. 277; Chegaray v. New York, 13 N. Y. 229; Northampton County v. Lafayette College, 128 Pa. 132, 18 Atl. 516. In England, it is a civil corporation, com-

to distinguish promises that are within, and such as are not within, the statute of frauds. Elder y. Warfield, 7 Har. & J. (Md.) 391. As to collateral "Consanguinity," "De scent," "Estoppel," "Guaranty," "Issue," "Limitation," "Negligence," * 'Proceeding," and "Warranty," see those titles. COLLATERALS ET SOCII. The an cient title of masters in chancery. COLLATIO BONORUM. Lat A join ing 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 per sonal estate at his death. See COLLATION. COLLATIO SIGNORUM. In Old Eng lish law. A comparison of marks or seals. A mode of testing the genuineness of a seal, by comparing it with another known to be genuine. Adams. See Bract, fol. 389&. COLLATION. In the civil law. The collation of goods is the supposed or real re turn to the mass of the succession which an heir makes of property which he received in advance of his share or otherwise, in order that such property may be divided together with the other effects of the succession. Civ. Code La. art. 1227; Miller v. Miller, 105 La. 257, 29 South. 802. The term is sometimes used also in cctu mon-law jurisdictions in the sense given above. It is synonymous with "hotchpot" Moore v. Freeman, 50 Ohio St. 592, 35 N. E. 502. In practice. The comparison of a copy with its original to ascertain its correctness; or the report of the officer who made the comparison. COLLATION OF SEALS. When upon the same label one seal was set on the back or reverse of the other. Wharton. COLLATION TO A BENEFICE. In ec clesiastical law. This occurs where the bish op and patron are one and the same person, in which case the bishop cannot present the clergyman to himself, but does, by the one act of collation or conferring the benefice, the whole that is done in common cases both by presentation and institution. 2 BL Comm. 22. COLLATIONS FACTA UNI POST MORTEM ALTERITJS. A writ directed to justices of the common pleas, commanding them to issue their writ to the bishop, for the admission of a clerk in the place of an other presented by the crown, where there had been a demise of the crown during a suit; for judgment once passed for the king's clerk, and he dying before admittance, the