Law Dictionary of Legal Terminology

PROFESSION

PROFESSION. This word has several significations. 1. It is a public declaration respecting something. Code, 10, 41, 6.

2. It i's 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. 3. In the ecclesiastical law, it is the act of entering into a religious order. See 17 Vin. Ab. 545.