Editing Pro forma (section)

{{Short description|Latin for "as a matter of form" or "for the sake of form"}}
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The term '''''pro forma''''' ([[Latin]] for "as a matter of form" or "for the sake of form") is most often used to describe a practice or document that is provided as a courtesy or satisfies minimum requirements, conforms to a [[Convention (norm)|norm]] or [[doctrine]] and tends to be performed [[wikt:perfunctory|perfunctorily]] or is considered a [[formality]]. The term is used in [[law|legal]] and [[business]] fields to refer to various types of documents that are generated as a matter of course.