Consolidate

To unite into one distinct things or parts of a thing. In a genvarious funds. In parliamentary usage, to consolidate two bills is to unite them into one. In law, to consolidate benefices, actions, or corporations is to combine them into one. See Independent Dist. of Fairview v. Durland, 45 la. 56.

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 bllls is to unite them into one. In law, to consolidate benefices is to combine them into one. Fairview v. Durland, 45 Iowa, 56.

— Consolidated fnnd. In England. A fund for the payment of the public debt.

— Consolidated laws or statntes. A collection or compilation into one statute or one code or volume of ali the laws of the state in general, or of those relating to a particular subject; nearly the same as "compiled laws" or "compiled statutes." 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.

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 benefices is to combine them into one. 45 Iowa, 56.

To unite or merge into one; to combine; to amalgamate. To unite into one mass or body, as, to consolidate various funds; to unite in one, as, to consolidate legislative bills. 3 Consolidation of actions. A direction that one of several pending actions, involving the same facts and issues, shall be tried, the result of the trial to be an adjudication of all the causes; or else that all the actions proceed to trial and judgment as one suit. Sometimes termed the " consolidation rule." ' Allowed in suits against several insurers; in suitson separate promissory notes of the same date; but not in actions upon independent contracts, nor where claims have different guarantees; nor in actions upon distinct penalties. The United States courts may consolidate actions of a like nature, or relative to the same question, as they deem reasonable.* Consolidation of associations. Union or merger into one, of two or more companies or corporations organized for the same, or for some related, purpose. In England, " amalgamation." Whether the consolidation of two companies works a dissolution of both, and the creation of a new Corporation, depends upon the intention of the legislatui'6.®' A sale by one coi-poration of all of its property to another corporation, is, as against creditors not assenting thereto, fraudulent and void." When two companies unite or become consolidated under the authority of law, until the contrary appears the presumption is that the united or consolidated company has all the powers and privileges, and is subject to all the restrictions and liabilities, of the companies out of which it was created.' 1 Farrish v. Cook, 0 Mo. Ap. 328, 331 (1878). ' Indep. District of Fairview v. Dm-Iand, 45 Iowa, 66- (1876), Seevers, C. J. ^ > See Gould, Plead., IV, s. 103; Cox, Com. L. Pr. 239;. 59 Miss. 126., *R. S. § 921; Keep v. Indianapolis, &c. E. Co., 3. Mc Crary, 302 (1882): 10 F. E. 456. » Centi-al R. Co. v. Georgia, 93 U. S. 670-76 (1S75), cases; Branch v. Charleston, ib. 677, 683 (1875), cases; Green County v. Couness, 109 id. 106 (18a3); Tj-son u. Wabash R. Co., U Biss. 510 (1883); Woodruff v. Erie E. Co., 93 N. Y. 616-16 (1883). 'Hibernia Ins. Co. v. St. Louis, &c. Transp. Co., 4