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Conventus

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from cofwenire, to come together.] In old English law.

An assembly

Conventus magnatum vel procerum; an assembly of the great men or nobles. One of the ancient names of the English parliament.

1 Bl. Com, 148.

A convent. Bract, fol.

16, 347.