Violent

Characterized or caused by violence; severe; assailing the person (and metaphorically, the mind) with a great degree of force.

— Violent death. Death caused by violent external means, as distinguished from nafural death, caused by disease or the wasting of the vital forces.

— Violent presumption. In the law of evidence. Proof of a fact by the proof of circumstances which necessarily attend it. 3 Bl. Comm. 371. Violent presumption la many times equal to full proof. Id. See Davis v. Curry, 2 Bibb (Ky.) 239; Shealy v. Edwards, 75 Ala. 419.

— Violent profits. Mesne profits in Scotland. "They are so called because due on the tenant's forcible or unwarrantable detaining the possession after he ought to have removed." Ersk. Inst. 2, 6, 54; Bell.