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profert Law. Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈprəʊfət| [f. L. prōfert (in cūriā) ‘he produces (in court)’, 3rd sing. pres. of prō fer-re to bring forward.] The production or exhibition of a deed in court.
1719Lilly Pract. Regr. II. 382 Where the Plaintiff declares upon a Deed, or the Defendant pleads a Deed, he must do it with a Profert in Curia to the end that the other Party may at his own Charges have a Copy of it. 1769Gibbon Law Evid. 189 (Jod.) Upon every contract with solemnity there is a profert made of it to the courts, so that it appears to be the same on the declaration and in the evidence. 1852Act 15 & 16 Vict. c. 76 §55 It shall not be necessary to make Profert of any Deed or other Document mentioned or relied on in any Pleading. 1884Sir H. C. Lopes in Law Times Rep. L. 366/2 A plaintiff suing as executor could not maintain his action without making profert of the probate. 1885L. O. Pike Yearbks. 12 & 13 Edw. III, Introd. 61 Profert of a deed had been made by the defendant, and..the deed had been denied by the plaintiff. |