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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ob·ven·tion n.  The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering. [Obs.] “Tithes and other obventions.”
    Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and obventions.   --Fuller.