consolidation legal definition

noun

1. The act of combining two or more things into one.
2. In corporate law, the union of two or more corporations into a new corporation along with the dissolution of the original corporations. See also merger.
3. In civil procedure, the court-ordered combination of two or more actions that involve the same parties or issues. In the end, there may be a single judgment for all the actions or a separate judgment for each original action. See also joinder.