CONVENE

convene, vb. 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 […]