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Conventuals

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Religious men united in a convent or religious house.

Cowell.

CONVENTUS (Lat. convenire). An assembly; conventus magnatum vel procenim, an assemblage of the chief men or nobility; a name of the English parliament.

1 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 148.

In Civil Law. A contract made between two or more parties. A multitude of men, of all classes, gathered together. A standing in a place to attract a crowd. A collection of the people by the magistrate to give judgment. Calv. Lex.