Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Effects

n. pl. Movable property; goods <person:rl effects>.

cumulative-effects doctrine

The rule that a transaction affecting interstate commerce in a trivial way may be taken together with other similar transactions to establish that the combined effect on interstate commerce is not trivial and can therefore be regulated under the Commerce Clause.

effects doctrine

See AFFECTS DOCTRINE.

personal effects

Items of a personal character; esp., personal property owned by a decedent at the time of death.