What is "violent profits"

Violent \Vi"o*lent\, a. [F., from L. violentus, from vis strength, force; probably akin to Gr. ? a muscle, strength.]

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.

   Float upon a wild and violent sea.
   --Shak.

   A violent cross wind from either coast.
   --Milton.

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

   To bring forth more violent deeds.
   --Milton.

   Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life.
   --Shak.

3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.

   These violent delights have violent ends.
   --Shak.

   No violent state can be perpetual.
   --T. Burnet.

   Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
   --Milton.

   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.

   Syn: Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme.

n. (context legal Scotland English) Rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.