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Consultazione |
Pronunciation : Con`sul*ta"tion
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [L. consultatio: cf. F. consultation.]
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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