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HOSUR , a See also:town of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Salem See also:district of See also:Madras, 24 M. E. of See also:Bangalore. Pop. (19or) 6695. It contains an old fort, frequently mentioned in the See also:history of the See also:Mysore See also:wars, and a See also:fine castellated See also:mansion built by a former See also:collector. See also:Close by is the remount See also:depot, established in 1828, where Australian horses are acclimatized and trained for See also:artillery and See also:cavalry use in See also:southern India. HOTCH-POT, or HoTcH-POTCu (from Fr. hocher, to shake; used as See also:early as 1292 as a See also:law See also:term, and from the 15th See also:century in See also:cookery for a sort of broth with many ingredients, and so used figuratively for any heterogeneous mixture), in See also:English law, the name given to a See also:rule of See also:equity whereby a See also:person, interested along with others in a See also:common fund, and having already received something in the same See also:interest, is required to surrender what has been so acquired into the common fund, on See also:pain of being excluded from the See also:distribution. " It seemeth," says See also:Littleton, " that this word botch-pot is in English a See also:pudding; for in a pudding is not commonly put one thing alone, but one thing with other things together." The following is an old example given in See also:Coke on Littleton: " If a See also:man seized of 30 acres of See also:land in See also:fee hath issue only two daughters, and he gives with one of them 10 acres in See also:marriage to the man that marries her, and See also:dies seized of the other 2o; now she that is thus married, to gain her See also:share of the See also:rest of the land, must put her See also:part given in marriage into hotch-pot; i.e. she must refuse to take the profits thereof, and cause her land to be so mingled with the other that an equal See also:division of the whole may be made between her and her See also:sister, as if none had been given to her; and thus for her to acres she shall have 15, or otherwise the sister will have the 20." In the common law this seems to have been the only instance in which the rule was applied, and the See also:reason assigned for it is that, inasmuch as daughters succeeding to lands take together as coparceners and not by See also:primogeniture, the policy of the law is that the land in such cases should be equally divided. The law of hotch-pot applies only to lands descending in fee-See also:simple. The same principle is noticed by See also:Blackstone as applying in- the customs of See also:York and See also:London to See also:personal See also:property. It is also expressly enacted in the See also:Statute of Distributions (§ 5) that no See also:child of the intestate, except his See also:heir-atlaw, who shall have any See also:estate in land by the See also:settlement of the intestate, or who shall be advanced by the intestate in his lifetime by pecuniary portion equal to the distributive shares of the other See also:children, shall participate with them in the surplus; but if the estate so given to such child by way of See also:advancement be not See also:equivalent to their shares, then such part of the surplus as will make it equal shall be allotted to him. It has been decided that this See also:provision applies only to advancements by fathers, on the ground that the rule was founded on the See also:custom of London, which never affected a widow's personal estate. The heir-at-law is not required to bring any land which he has by descent or otherwise from the deceased into hotch-pot, but advancements made to him out of the personal property must be brought in. The same principle is to be found in the collatio bonorum of the See also:Roman law: emancipated children, in See also:order to share the See also:inheritance of their See also:father with the children unemancipated, were required to bring their property into the common fund. It is also found in the law of See also:Scotland.
HOTEL-DE-VILLE, the town See also: The HOtel-Dieu of See also:Beaune (Cote-d'Or), founded 1443, is one of the most interesting, as it retains the picturesque disposition of its courtyard, with covered galleries on two storeys and large See also:dormer windows;and the See also:great hall of the HOtel-Dieu at See also:Tonnerre, See also:Yonne (1338), nearly 6o ft. wide and over 300 ft. See also:long, is still preserved as part of the See also:chief hospital of the town. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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