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CONSIGNOR

one person in one place to another person in another place. See CONSIGN. CONSIGNOR. One who sends or makes a consignment. A shipper of goods. Consilia multorum. c^user-untiir in mag nis. 4 Inst. 1. The counsels of many are required in great things. CONSILIARIUS. In the civil law. A counsellor, as distinguished from a pleader or advocate. An assistant judge. One who participates in the decisions. Du Cange. CONSILIUM. A day appointed to hear the counsel of both parties. A case set down for argument. It is commonly used for the day appointed for the argument of a demurrer, or errors as signed. 1 Tidd, Pr« 438. CONSIMILI CASU. In practice. A writ of entry, framed under the provisions of the statute Westminster 2, (13 Edw. I.,) c. 24, which lay for the benefit of the reversioner, where a tenant by the curtesy aliened in fee or for life. CONSISTING. Being composed or made up of. This word is not synonymous with "including;" for the latter, when used in connection with a number of specified ob jects, always implies that there may be oth ers which are hot mentioned. Farish v. Cook, 6 Mo. App. 331. CONSISTORIUM. The state council of the Roman emperors. Mackeld. Rom. Law, f 58. CONSISTORY. In ecclesiastical law. An assembly of cardinals convoked by the pope. CONSISTORY COURTS. Courts held by diocesan bishops within their several cathedrals, for the trial of ecclesiastical caus es arising within their respective dioceses. The bishop's chancellor, or his commissary, is the judge; and from his sentence an ap peal lies to the archbishop. Mozley & Whit ley. CONSOBRTNI. In the civil law. Cous ins-german, in general; brothers' and sisters' children, considered in their relation to each other. CONSOCIATIO. Lat An association, fellowship, or partnership. Applied by some of the older writers to a corporation, and even to a nation considered as a body politic. Thomas v. Dakin, 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 104. CONSOLATO DEI. MARE. The name of a code of sea-laws, said to have been com piled by order of the kings of Arragon (or, according to other authorities, at Pisa or Bar

celona) in the fourteenth century, which comprised the maritime ordinances of the Roman emperors, of France and Spain, and of the Italian commercial powers. This com pilation exercised a considerable influence in the formation of European maritime law. To consolidate means something more than rearrange or redivide. In a general sense, it means to unite into one mass or body, as to consolidate the forces of an army, or various funds. In parliamentary usage, to consolidate two bills is to unite them into one. In law, to consolidate bene fices is to combine them into one. Fairview v. Durland, 45 Iowa, 56. — Consolidated fund. In England. A fund for the payment of the public debt— Consoli dated laws or statntes. A collection or com pilation into one statute or one code or volume of all the laws of the state in general, or of those relating to a particular subject; nearly the same as "compiled laws" or "compiled stat utes." See COMPILATION. And see Ellis v. Parsell, 100 Mich. 170, 58 N. W. 839; Graham v. Muskegon County Clerk, 116 Mich. 571, 74 N. W. 729.— Consolidated orders. The orders regulating the practice of the English court of chancery, which *were issued, in 1860, in substitution for the various orders which had previously been promulgated from time to time. CONSOLIDATION. 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 ac quires the estate, or vice versa. In either case the usufruct is extinct Lee. El. Dr. Rom. 424. In Scotch law. The junction of the prop erty and superiority of an estate, where they have been disjoined. Bell. —Consolidation of actions. The act or pro cess of uniting several actions into one trial and judgment, by order of a court, where all the actions are between the same parties, pend ing in the same court, and turning upon the same or similar issues; 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. Powell v. Gray, 1 Ala. 77; Jackson v. Chamberlin, 5 Cow. (N. Y.) 282; Thompson v. Shepherd, 9 Johns. (N. Y.) 262. —Consolidation of benefices. The act or process of uniting two or more of them into one.— Consolidation of corporations. The union or merger into one corporate body of two or more corporations which had been separately created for similar or connected purposes. In England this is termed "amalgamation." When the rights, franchises, and effects of two or more corporations are, by legal authority and agree ment of the parties, combined and united into one whole, and committed to a single corpora tion, the stockholders of which are composed of those (so far as they choose to become such) of the companies thus agreeing, this is in law, and according to common understanding, a consol idation of such companies, whether such single corporation, called the consolidated company, be a new one then created, or one of the original companies, continuing in existence with only larger rights, capacity, and property. Meyer v. Johnston, 64 Ala. 656; Shadford v. Railway Co., 130 Mich. 300, 89 N. W. 960; Adams v. Railroad Co., 77 Miss. 194, 24 South. 200, 28 South. 956, 60 L. R. A. 33; Pingree v. Rail- CONSOLIDATE.