Conventio

In canon law. The act of summoning or calling together the parties by summoning the defendant.

In the civil law. A compact, agreement, or convention. An agreement between two or more persons respecting a legal relation between them. The term is one of very wide scope, and applies to all classes of subjects'in which an engagement or business relation may be founded by agreement. It is to be distinguished from the negotiations or preliminary transactions on the object of the convention and fixing its extent, which are not binding so long as the convention is not concluded. Mackeld. Rom. Law, §§ 385, 386. In' contracts. An agreement; a covenant Cowell.

— Conventio in unnm. In the civil law. The agreement between the two parties tb a contract upon the sense of the contract proposed. It is an essential part of the contract, following the pollicitation or proposal emanating from the one, and followed by the consension or agreement of the other. Conventio privatorum non potest publico juri derogare. The agreement of private persens cannot derogate from public right, i. e., cannot prevent the application of general rules of law, or render valid any contravention of law. Co.. Litt. 166a; Wing. Mar. p. 746, max. 201. Conventio vincit legem. The express agreement of parties overcomes [prevails against] the law. Story, Ag. § 368.

convencio, Lat.

In old English law. A covenant; an agreement. Conventio duplicata: an agreement executed in duplicate, or in two parts. Conventio legi derogat: agreement derogates from law. Conventio privatorum non potest publico juri derogare: the agreement of private persons cannot derogate from public right. Conventio vincit legem: the express agreement of parties overcomes the law.

In the civil law. A coming together of parties; a convention; an agreement.

In canon law. The act of summoning or calling together the parties by summoning the defendant.

In the civil law. A compact, agreement, or convention. An agreement between two or more persons respecting a legal relation between them. The term is one of very wide scope, and applies to all classes of subjects in which an engagement or business relation may be founded by agreement. It is to be distinguished from the negotiations or preliminary transactions on the object of the convention and fixing its extent, which are not binding so long as the convention is not concluded. Mackeld. Rom. Law, §§ 385, 386.

A coming togefher: agreement, engagement. ^ Conventio vinoit legem. Agreecient takes the place of the. law: the express vjnderstanding of parties supersedes such understanding as the law would imply. Parties are permitted to malce law for themselves where their agreements do not violate the express provisions of any municipal law nor injuriously affect the interests of the public* Setting aside the application of a general rule of law is not intended. ^

Lat. [from convenire, to come together.] In the civil law. A coming together of parties; a convention; an agreement. This was a term of the most general description, applying to all subjects upon which parties might come together for the purpose of entering into any engagement or transacting any business. Conventionis verbum generale est ad omnia pertinens de quibus negotii contrahendi transigendique causa consentiunt qui inter se agunt. Dig. 2. 14. 1. 3. It included the two leading divisions of contracts (contractus) and pacts (pacta). Heinec. El. Jur. Civ. lib. 3, tit. 14, § 784.