Consolidation Rule
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In practice
A rule made, on application of the defendants, and with the consent of the plaintiff, where several actions are brought on the same policy of insurance, by which the plaintiff's proceedings are stayed in all the actions except one, upon the defendants' undertaking to be bound by the verdict in that action, and to pay the amount of their several subscriptions and costs, in case a verdict shall be given therein for the plaintiff.
I Tidd's Pr, 614, Ckitt, Arch, Pr, 966.