1. To call together; to cause to assemble.
2. Eccles. law. To summon to respond to an action. See CONVENTIO(1).
“When the defendant was brought to answer, he was said to be convened, — which the canonists called conventio, because the plaintiff and defendant met to contest.” 1 John Bouvier, Bouvier’s Law-Dictionary 668 (8th ed. 1914).
3. Civil law. To bring an action.