Consultation /(?)/

Con·sul·ta·tion

Consultation

n.
  1. The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.
    Thus they doubtful consultations dark Ended.
  2. A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause.

Phrases & Compounds
Writ of consultation
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.