Amalgamation Definition: The merging of two things together to form one, such as the amalgamation of different companies to form a single company. Related Terms: Merger, Consolidation In Kemos, Justice Roney wrote: "A consolidation is the union of two or more corporations into one corporate body, after which the constituent corporations cease to exist. "A merger is the absorption of one corporation into another.... "[A]malgamation is ... used to designate a consolidation or merger." For example, Ontario's Business Corporations Act, at section 174, provides that "2 or more corporations ... may amalgamate and continue as one corporation" (RSO 1990 Chapter B16). Amalgamation is also used in the sense of amalgamating of two or more municipalities to effect cost-savings in the provision of otherwise duplicative municipal services. In this context, Ian MacFee Rogers wrote: "An amalgamation has been defined as a fusion of two or more legal entities into a continued new union with the obligations, by-laws and assets of the former municipalities." REFERENCES: Kemos Inc. v Bader, 545 F. 2d 913 (1977) Rogers, I. M., The Law of Canadian Municipal Corporations, Vol. 1 (Toronto: Carswell, 2003), p. 71 Town of Antigonish v. Municipality of the County of Antigonish 2006 NSCA 29 (which quotes from Rogers, op.cit.) Categories & Topics: Company, Associations and Commercial Law Dictionary Find you are constantly looking up definitions? Try our search provider (works in most modern browsers) If you find an error or omission in Duhaime's Legal Dictionary, or if you have legal term suggestion, we'd love to hear from you!