in the canon law, the giving or bestowing of a benefice on a clergyman by a bishop, who has it in his own gift or patronage.

in common law, the comparison or presentation of a copy to its original, to see whether or not it be conformable; or the report or act of the officer. ficer who made the comparison. A collated act is equivalent to its original, provided all the parties concerned were present at the collation.

Scots law, that right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and moveable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with the others in the same degree of kindred, when he thinks such share will be more than the value of the heritage to which he had an exclusive title. See Scots Law, title, Succession in moveables.

Collation is also vulgarly used for a repast between dinner and supper.