[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

consultation \con`sulta"tion\, n. l. consultatio: cf. f.
   consultation.
   1. the act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two
      or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.
      1913 webster

            thus they doubtful consultations dark
            ended.                                --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. a council or conference, as of physicians, held to
      consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a
      cause.
      1913 webster

   writ of consultation law, a writ by which a cause,
      improperly removed by prohibition from one court to
      another, is returned to the court from which it came; --
      so called because the judges, on consultation, find the
      prohibition ill-founded.
      1913 webster
see also:
writ of consultation 

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