violent profits

English

Noun

violent profits pl (plural only)

1. (law, Scotland) Rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “violent profits”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)