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Profer

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In old English law

An offer or proffer; an offer or endeavor to proceed in an action, by any man concerned to do so.

Cowell.

A return made by a sheriff of his accounts into the exchequer; a payment made on such return.

Id.