writ of consultation

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision. [1913 Webster]

Thus they doubtful consultations dark Ended.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

2.A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]