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Convention

A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

A general term for any mutual engagement, formal or informal.

See CoNVENTio.

Conventional.

Agreed upon; created by act of parties — by agreement; opposed to legal — created by construction and operation of law: as, a conventional estate fo;life; * a conventional community, q. v. There are postal conventions between nations; and constitutional conventions by delegates chosen to frame constitutions, q. v. Compare Reconvention.