Littleton, the first great writer on English real property-law, traces the origin of the phrase 'hotchpot' -- a familiar legal term -- to the archaic denomination of a pudding, in our English tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852] Reference

He maintained with great vehemence that there was "no authority to throw the rights and liberties of this people into 'hotchpot' with the wild men of the Missouri, nor with the mixed, though more respectable, race of Anglo-Hispano-Gallo-Americans who bask on the sands in the mouth of the Mississippi.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference

Let the scoffer about Mahomet's success, and the admirer of his hotchpot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference

In the hotchpot of Malaysia the citizenry practises a Babel-like habit of talking at cross-purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference

(A) Concerning the cuftom refpeft to the children of a man, and here of advance bringing into hotchpot, fui.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, in the time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. [1736-1754]] Reference

Provision ibra child by a father by will not to be brought into hotchpot, nor a, proYisioo of land for an heir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]] Reference

However, after compliments, and more protestations from its owner, the Strad was brought into hotchpot, and Lætitia abdicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somehow Good] Reference

'It seemeth,' he says, 'that this word, hotchpot, is in English a pudding; for in this pudding is not commonly put one thing alone, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852] Reference

But no, everyone's in the hotchpot now. extensive international advertising to tell copyright owners around the world about the consequences for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laboratorium | Recent Comments] Reference

If the mother heing a widow, advances a child, and dies intestate, leaTing many children, the child adTuicea shall not bring what he received from his mother into hotchpot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]] Reference

Satire first signified a basket of first fruits offered to Ceres; then a hotchpot or olla podrida, then a medley; and so the name was given to poems written without any definite design.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour] Reference

An annuity settled by a father apoa a child to commence after the fiither's death, is an advancement pro tantis and must be brought Into hotchpot, as must a contingent provision, irhen such contingency happens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]] Reference

A father advances one of his children in part; the child dies, after which the father dies intestate; the issue of the dead child claiming. a distribvtive share, shall bring into hotchpot wbtt their father has received.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]] Reference

English masterpieces of immaculate and moderately good prose extracts and dramatic passages, published with notes for the use of the native student, at weltering in a hotchpot and hurley-burley of arbitrarily distorted and very vulgarised cockneydoms and purely London provincialities, which must be of necessity to him as casting pearls before a swine!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.] Reference

"This puts new life into me," declared the father when he had eaten a few spoonfuls of hotchpot, "and now I 'll tell somewhat of the day's work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Puritan Twins] Reference

If we are to be considered as a nation, all state distinctions must be abolished, the whole must be thrown into hotchpot, and when an equal division is made then there may be fairly an equality of representation. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Critical Period of American History] Reference

5000/. secured to her, and ought not to have any part of the personal estate of the intestate her father, unless she would bring that into hotchpot, to die intent the estate of all the children niight be made equal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]] Reference