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consolidation definition - legal

n

  1. The act of combining two or more things into one.
  2. In corporate law, the union of two or more corporations into a new corporation along with the dissolution of the original corporations. See also merger.
  3. In civil procedure, the court-ordered combination of two or more actions that involve the same parties or issues. In the end, there may be a single judgment for all the actions or a separate judgment for each original action. See also joinder.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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