violent presumption

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. [1913 Webster]

Float upon a wild and violent sea.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

A violent cross wind from either coast.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

2.Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech. [1913 Webster]

To bring forth more violent deeds.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal. [1913 Webster]

These violent delights have violent ends.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

No violent state can be perpetual.— T. Burnet.[1913 Webster]

Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

Violent presumption (Law), presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts.

Violent profits (Scots Law), rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing. [1913 Webster]

Syn: Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme. [1913 Webster]