CONVENTUS JURIDICI, were courts of justice established in the Roman provinces; with a resort or extent of jurisdiction, circumscribed and confined within certain limits of district, whither all who were of the resort were to repair for justice. The unreasonable affection of changing forms of war into forms of civil courts, proved the ruin of Varus and of three legions in Germany, (Florus). Conventum agere, is to hold a court of justice.
CONVERGING or CONVERGENT LINES, in geometry, are such as continually approach nearer one another, or whose distances become still less and less. These are opposed to divergent lines, the distances of which become continually greater: those lines which converge one way, diverge the other.