What is CONSOLIDATION? Definition of CONSOLIDATION in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
Act of consolidating, or the status of being consolidated. O'Malley v. Wilson,182 Ga. 97, 185 S.E. 109, 114.
In the civil law. The union of the usufruct with the estate out of which it issues, in the same person; which happens when the usufructuary acquires the estate, or vice versa. In either case the usufruct is extinct. Lec.El.Dr.Rom. 424.
In ecclesiastical law. The union of two or more benefices in one. Cowell.
In practice. The union of two or more actions, as in the same declaration, or for the purpose of trial or appellate review. See Consolidation of Actions.
In Scotch law. The junction of the property and superiority of an estate, where they have been disjoined. Bell.
Consolidation of actions. The act or process of uniting several actions into one trial and judgment, by order of a court, where all the actions are between the same parties, pending in the same court, and involving substantially the same subject-matter, issues and defenses; or the court may order that one of the actions be tried, and the others decided without trial according to the judgment in the one selected. 249 N.Y.S. 33, 36, 139 Misc. 564; National Union Fire Ins. Co. v. Chesapeake and 0. Ry. Co., D.C.Ky., 4 F.Supp. 25, 30.
It means the merging of two or more actions into one so that they lose their separate identity, while in trial of "several actions together" each retains its separate character and requires the entry of a separate judgment. Ramswick v. Messerer, 200 Minn. 299, 274 N.W. 179; Reeves v. Philadelphia Gas Works Co., 107 Pa.Super. 422, 164 A. 132, 134, 107.
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