In old English law, election, or to prepare a new constitution. agreeable, convenient, or suitable.-Cowell. CONVENE.-A civil law term, signifying to sue. CONVENIENCES, OUTHOUSES, &C., (power to turnpike company to erect). 1 Dowl. & Ry. 202, 203. CONVENIENT, (defined). 1 Munf. (Va.) 110, 117; 1 McC. (S. C.) Ch. 148. (in a will). 6 Ves. 529; 8 Id. 554. CONVENIENT PLACE, (defined). 4 Zab. (N. J.) 49. CONVENIENT PRIVILEGE OF PASSING, (equivalent to way or road). 45 Me. 281. CONVENIENTLY, (in a will). 19 Ves. 390 (l). CONVENT.--The fraternity of an abbey or priory, as societas is the number of fellows in a college. A religious house, now regarded as a merely voluntary association, not importing civil death. In re Metcalfe, 33 L. J. Ch. 308. CONVENTICLE.-A private assembly or meeting for the exercise of religion. The word was first an appellation of reproach to the religious assemblies of Wycliffe in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II., and was afterwards applied to a meeting of dissenters from the established church. As this word, in strict propriety, denotes an unlawful assembly, it cannot be justly applied to the assembling of persons in places of worship licensed according to the requisitions of law. Wharton. CONVENTIO.-An agreement or covenant. CONVENTIO IN UNUM.-The agreement between the two parties to 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. If the second party does not assent to the proposal in the sense in which it is made, he is not bound by his assent unless his mistake is unreasonable. Conventio privatorum non potest publico juri derogare (Wing. 746): An agreement of private persons cannot affect public right. Conventio vincit legem (Dig. 2): An agreement overcomes law. 6 Taunt. 430. See CONVENTIO; CONVENTIONS, for further meanings. CONVENTIONAL ESTATES.-Freeholds not of inheritance or estates for life, which are created by the express acts of the parties, in contradistinction to those which are legal and arise from the operation and construction of law.