Violent Profits
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In Scotch law. The gains made by a tenant holding over are so called. Ersk. Inst. 2. 6. 64. VIOLENTA PRAESUMPTIO ALIQUANdo est plena probatio. Violent presumption is sometimes full proof. Co. Litt. 6b. VIPERINA EST EXPOSITIO QUAE CORrodlt viscera textus. That is a viperous exposition which gnaws or eats out the bowels of the text. 11 Coke, 34. VIR ET UXOR CENSENTUR IN LEGE una persona. Husband and wife are considered one person in law. Co. Litt. 112; Jenk. Cent. Cas. 27. VIR ET UXOR SUNT QUASI UNICA persona, quia caro et sanguis unus; res licet sit propria uxoris, vir tamen ejus custos, cum sit caput mulleris. Man and wife are, as it were, one person, because only one flesh and blood; although the property may be the wife's, the husband is keeper of it, since he is the head of the wife. Co. Litt. 112. VIR MILITANS DEO NON IMPLICETUR secuiaribus negotlis. A man fighting for God must not be involved in secular business. Co. Litt. 70.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
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.
Defined under Violent in Black's Law Dictionary.