consult ary

[Low Lat. consul tar i us.] Formed on or resulting from consultation. Consult ary response : Law : The opinion of a court on a special case. ( Wharton .) con-sult-ā-tion, s. [Fr., from Lat. consultatio.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of consulting or deliberating; deliberation. "The subject of those consultations,."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xvi. 2. The act of referring to or examining; a reference to. "By the consultation of books, ."- Rambler , No. 87. *3. A number of persons met to consult together; a council; a meeting of experts to consider a point or case. "A consultation was called, wherein he advised a salivation."-Wiseman: Of Absce es. II. Law : (See extract.) " Consultatio is a writ, whereby a cause, being formerly removed by prohibition from the ecclesiastical court, or court Christian, to the king's court, is returned thither again; for the judges of the king's court, if, upon comparing par the libel with the suggestion of the party, they do find the suggestion false, or not proved, and therefore the cause to be wrongfully called from the court Christian; then, upon this consultation or deliberation, decree it to be returned again."- Cowel .