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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Con·sul·ta·tion n.
 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.
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