> as lemmas

1561 Inventory Munim. Earl of Crawford II. 20 Dec. 82 [Decreet against Alexander Lindsay for violent occupation and] violent profits [of the said lands].

1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Iter Hee, as soverttie, may be called and conveened for the gudes spuilzied. For the violent prices thereof, [etc.].

1656 in J. A. Clyde Hope's Major Practicks (1937) I. 241 In ane action of ejection persewed be Gordone of Aberʒeldie..contra Arthur Lord Forbes; it wes found that Aberʒeldie could have no action for the violent proffitts bot allenerly fra the date of the intention of the summonds.

1684 in G. S. Pryde Court Bk. Kirkintilloch (1963) 131 And decernes hir to flitt and remove from the housses posest be hir..under the payne of being ejected thairfrae and peying of violent meall.

1752 W. Stewart Let. 14 May in Scots Mag. (1753) June 294/1 It can be no more than violent profits, which is often modified in inferior courts.

1765–8 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. ii. vi. §54 Violent profits are so called, because they become due on the tenant's forcible or unwarrantable detaining the possession after he ought to have removed.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 1028 In rural tenements, the violent profits are held to be the full profits which the landlord could have made.

1883 J. Macgregor Land Question 31/2 He was charged with ‘violent profits’, which means the doubling of the rent for remaining in possession after the term.

1916 Sc. Hist. Rev. 19 251 Decrees were obtained against the son for violent profits and other matters.

2011 Aberdeen Student Law Rev. 2 23 In certain circumstances a dispossessed party may be entitled not only to restoration of possession, but also to a monetary payment, termed ‘violent profits’.