consolidation

consolidation is permitted as a matter of convenience and economy in administration, but does not merge the suits into a single cause, or change the rights of the parties, or make those who are parties in one suit parties in another

In Civil Law. The union of the usufruct with the estate out of which it issues, in the same person, which happens when the usufructuary acquires the estate, or vice versa. In either case the usufruct is extinct. Lee. Elm. 424. It may take place in two ways: First, by the usufructuary surrendering his right to the proprietor, which in the common law is called a "surrender"; secondly, by the release by the proprietor of his rights to the usufructuary, which in our law is called a "release." In Ecclesiastical Law. The union of two or more benefices in one. Cowell. in Practice. The union of two or more pending actions in the same court between the same parties, and involving the same issues. —

In Civil Law. The union of the usufruct with the estate out of which it issues, in the same person; which happens when the usufructuary acquires the estate, or vice versa. In either case the usufruct is extinct. Lee. Elm. Dr. Rom. 424.

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 acquires the estate, or vice versa. In either case the usufruct is extinct Lee. Ei. Dr. Rom. 424.

In Scotch law. The junction of the property and superiority of an estate, where they have been disjoined. Bell.

— Consolidation of actions. The act or process of uniting several actions into one trial and judgment, by order of a court, where all the actions are between the same parties, pending 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 agreement of the parties, combined and united into one whole, and committed to a single corporation, 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 consolidation 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; Sbadford v. Railway Co.., 130 Michi 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. Railmad Co.., 118 Mich. 314, 76 N. W. 635, 53 In RA. 274; People v. Coke Co., 205 111. 482, 68 N. E. 950, 98 Am. St. Rep. 244; Buford v. Packet Co., 3 Mo. App. 171.

— Consolidation rule. In practice. A rule or order of court requiring a plaintiff who has instituted separate suits upon several claims against the same defendant, to consolidate them in one action, where that can be done consistently with the rules of pleading.

Union; combination; amalgamation. Consolidation of actions: the combination of several actions into one; or of several causes of action of the same nature in one declaration. Consolidation rule: a rule for uniting several actions brought by the same parties on the same cause, by which a verdict in one shall bind the parties in all the others.

In Scots law. The junction of the property and superiority of an estate, where they have been disjoined.

In the civil law. The union in the same person of the possession or profit of lands, with the property.

In ecclesiastical law. The' combination and union of two benefices in one.

\ha,i. consolidatioA In ecclesiastical law. The combination and union of two benefices in one. Stat 37 Hen. VIII. c. 21. Cowell, voc. Union.

In the civil law. The union in the same person of the possession or profit {ususfruc" tus) of lands, with the property {proprietas.) Term£S de la ley. CowelL See Unity of possession.

civil law, is the union of the usufruct with the estate out of which it issues, in the same person; which happens when the usufructuary acquires the estate, or vice versa. In either case the usufruct is extinct. In the common law this is called a merger.