CONVENTUAL, something belonging to a convent or monastery.
CONVENTUAL is particularly used for a religious person, who actually resides in a convent; in contradistinction to those who are only guests, or in possession of benefices depending on the house. See MONK.
CONVENTUS JURIDICI were courts of justice established in the Roman provinces, with an extent of jurisdiction circumscribed within certain limits of district, and to which all who were included had to repair for justice. The unseasonable affectation of changing forms of war into forms of civil courts proved the ruin of Varus and of three legions in Germany. Conventum agere is to hold a court of justice.