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 natural 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 is many times equal to fall proof. 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. Violenta prsesumptio aliquando est plena probatio. Co. Litt 66. Violent presumption is sometimes full proof.
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