profession

Defined in 6 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)

United States Code

8 U.S.C. § 1101 — as used in this chapter

The term “profession” shall include but not be limited to architects, engineers, lawyers, physicians, surgeons, and teachers in elementary or secondary schools, colleges, academies, or seminaries.

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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. lib. 1, tit. 9, §1, note 7. See 41 Mich. 155. In Ecclesiastical Law. The act of entering into a religious order. See 17 Viner, Abr. 545.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

An employment involving professional attainment in special knowledge as distinguished from mere skill. See 163 U. S. 258, 41 L. Ed. 151, 16 Sup. Ct. Rep. 998.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

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.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A publlc declaration respecting something. Cod. 10, 41, 6.

In ecclesiastical law. The act of entering into a religious order. See 17 Vim Abr. 545. Also a calling, vocation, known employment; divinity, medicine, and law are called the "learned professions."

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

" Professional employment" relates to some of the occupations universally classed as professions, the general 374; 12 r. E. 813-14, cases; 10 id. 529; 15 id. 718-30, eases; 2 Blatch. 23, 301; 20 How. 194. 1 Be Pacific Ka Uway Commission, 32 F. E. 250 (1887), Field, J. 2 Craft V. Snook, 13 N. J. E. 122 (1860), cases; 4 La. An. 109; 7 id. 449. s The Mayor v. Davis, 6 W. & S. 279 (1843). ' Momlngstar v. Ckmningham, 110 Ind. 383 (1886). « Goree v. State, 71 Ala. 9 (1831), cases, Somerville, J.; Gaines v. State, 7 Lea, 410 (1881); State v. Crisp, 85 Hr. C. 528 (1881); 1 Bish. Cr. L. § 498; 2 id. § 79; 3 Whart, Am. Cr. L. § 2536; Cooley, Const. Lim. 476. " L. proferre, to bring forward. duties and character of which the courts notice judicially.! See Property; Tax, 3.