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Consolidation

The act or process of uniting several cases into one trial and judgment, by order of a court, where all of the cases are between the same parties, pending in the same court, and turning upon the same or similar issues; or the court may order that one of the cases be tried, and the others decided without trial according to the judgment in the one selected. Also applied where companies in the same industry or of the same type join together.
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