Profession
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A public declaration respecting something.
Code 10. 41. 6.
A state, art, or mystery: as, the legal profession.
Dig. 1. 18. 6. 4; Domat, Dr. Pub. 1. 1, t 9, s. 1, n. 7.
In Ecclesiastical Law. The act of entering into a religious order.
See 17 Viner, Abr. 5-15.
The term professions in a statute laying a tax includes lawyers; Lanier v. Macon, 59 Ga. 187.
See Pen nock v. Fuller, 41 Mich. 155, 2 N. W. 170, 32 Am. Rep. 148; People v. Mc Allister, 19 Mich. 217.