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Profess

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Profess, means to avow publicly; to make an open declaration of ....... To declare one's belief in, Webster's New Word Dictionary.

The word 'profess' in the Presidential Order appears to have been used in the sense of an open declaration or practice by a person of the Hindu (or the Sikh) religion, Punjabrao v. D.P. Meshran, AIR 1965 SC 1179 (1184). [Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order (1950) clause 3]

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