To join together multiple items into one.
Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition
To consolidate means something more than rearrange or redlvide. In a general sense, it means to unite into one mass or body, as to consolidate the forces of an army, or various funds. In parliamentary usage, to consolidate two bills is to unite them Into one. In law, to consolidate benefices is to combine them into one. Fairvlew v. Durland, 45 Iowa, 56. Consolidated fund. In England. A fund for the payment of the public debt Consolidated laws or statute. A collection or compilation into one statute or one code or volume of all the laws of the state in general, or of those relating to a particular subject; nearly the same as “compiled laws” or “compiled statutes.” See COMPILATION. And see Ellis v. Parsell, 100 Mich. 170, 58 N. W. 839; Graham v. Muskegon County Clerk, 116 Mich. 571, 74 N. W. 729. Consolidated orders. The orders regulating the practice of the English court of chancery, which were issued, in I860, in substitution for the various orders which had previously been promulgated from time to time.