Violent

Not natural or spontaneous, not intentional, voluntary, expected or usual. Bacon v. Acc. Ass’n, 44 Hun GOG.

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.

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