CONVENTIO - Black's Law Dictionary

What is CONVENTIO? Definition of CONVENTIO in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.

Canon Law.  The  act of summoning or calling  together the parties  by summoning the defendant.

The  Civil  Law.  A compact, agreement, or convention. An agreement between two or more persons respecting a legal  relation between them. Mackeld. Rom. Law, §§ 385, 386.

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.

In contracts. An agreement; a covenant. Cowell.

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