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professional corporation. See CORPORATION. [Blacks Law 8th]

professional association.See ASSOCIATION. [Blacks Law 8th]

professional,n. A person who belongs to a learned profession or whose occupation requires a high level of training and proficiency. [Blacks Law 8th]

profession. 1. A vocation requiring advanced education and training; esp., one of the three traditional learned professions — law, medicine, and the ministry. “Learned professions are characterized by the need of unusual learning, the existence of confidential relations, the adherence to a standard of ethics higher than that of the market place, and in a…

professio juris (pr<<schwa>>-fes[h]-ee-oh joor-is). [Latin] A recognition of the right of a contracting party to stipulate the law that will govern the contract. [Blacks Law 8th]

profess,vb. To declare openly and freely; to confess. [Blacks Law 8th]

profert in curia (proh-f<<schwa>>rt in kyoor-ee-<<schwa>>). [Law Latin] He produces in court. • In common-law pleading, this phrase was used in a declaration asserting that the plaintiff was ready to produce, or had produced, the deed or other instrument on which the action was founded. [Blacks Law 8th]

profert (proh-f<<schwa>>rt).Common-law pleading. A declaration on the record stating that a party produces in court the deed or other instrument relied on in the pleading. [Cases: Pleading 305. C.J.S. Pleading §§ 519, 522.] [Blacks Law 8th]

proferens (proh-fer-enz). [Latin] The party that proposes a contract or a condition in a contract. Pl. proferentes (proh-f<<schwa>>-ren-teez). [Blacks Law 8th]

profer (proh-f<<schwa>>r).Hist. 1. An offer or proffer. 2. A return made by a sheriff of an account into the Exchequer. [Blacks Law 8th]