consultationn.[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.()Thus they doubtful consultations dark
Ended. (Milton.)2. A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause.()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.()