\Con`sul*ta"tion\, n. [L. consultatio: cf. F.
consultation.]
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.