CONVENTION

In Roman law. An agreement between parties; a pact..A. convention was a mutual engagement between two persons, po e ing all the subjective requisites of a contract, but which did not give rise to an action, nor receive· the sanction of the law, as bearing an "obligation," until the objective. requisite of a solemn ceremonial, {such as stipula.tto) was supplied. In?ther [s. 272]