Convent
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The fraternity of a religious house, as of an abbey or priory. The word though in common usage restricted to companies of women, properly embraces companies of either men or women living together in the discipline of a religious order, either monks or nuns. The house occupied by such a community, a monastery or nunnery; an abbey {q. v.)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The fraternity of an abbey F or priory, as socéetas is the number of fellows in a college. <A religious house, now regarded as a merely voluntary association, not importing civil death. 33 Law J. Ch. 308.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[Lat. conventus, from convenire, to assemble together.] The fraternity of a religious house, as of an abbey or priory. Bract. fol. 16, 347. Frequently written covent. Litt. sect. 133. Co. Litt. 94 a, b.