CONSULATE

consulate (kon-s<<schwa>>-lit).1. The office or jurisdiction of a consul <the senator advised the businessman to notify the U.S. consulate in Kuwait before visiting the country>. [Cases: Ambassadors and Consuls  5. C.J.S. Ambassadors and Consuls §§ 26–30.] 2. The location of a consul’s office or residence <the family was staying on the second floor, just above the Turkish consulate>. foreign consulate.The consulate of a foreign country in the receiving state.

3. Government by consuls <after the French Revolution, the Directory was overthrown and the Consulate was created>. • This sense of consulate is based on the original Roman meaning (“chief magistrate”) — not on the modern sense of an overseas representative of a country. [Blacks Law 8th]