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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

Produced by force; strong, almost conclusive. Flolent presumption: proof of a fact by the proof of circumstances which, necessarily attend it v. Violenta, etc. In Scots law. Violent profits: the double of the rent of a tenement within a burgh, or the highest profits a party could make of lands in the country, recoverable against a tenant in a process of removing. Violenta prsesumptio [aliquando estj plena probatio, I. Violent presumption is many times equal to full proof. Viperina est expositio quae corrodit viscera testus, I. That is a viperous interpretation which eats out the bowels of the text