Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Civil fruit
See FRUIT.
Fruit
1. The produce or product of something (as of land or property). 2. Civil law. Income or goods derived or produced from property without a diminution of the property's value.
civil fruit
Civil law. Revenue received from property, such as interest income or a lease payment. See FRUCTUS CIVILES.
first fruits
1. Hist. One year's profits from the land of a tenant in capite, payable to the Crown after the tenant's death. - Also termed primer seisin. 2. Hist. Eccles. law. The first year's whole profits of a clergyman's benefice, paid by the incumbent to the Pope, or (after the break with Rome) to the Crown. 0 This revenue was later termed "Queen Anne's Bounty" when it was converted to a fund to benefit the poor. -Sometimes spelled firstfruits. - Also termed primdtiae.
fruit-and-the-tree doctrine
Tax. The rule that an individual who earns income cannot assign that income to another person to avoid taxation.
fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree doctrine
Criminal procedure. The rule that evidence derived from an illegal search, arrest, or interrogation is inadmissible because the evidence (the "fruit") was tainted by the illegality (the "poisonous tree"). ( Under this doctrine, for example, a murder weapon is inadmissible if the map showing its location and used to find it was seized during an illegal search. - Also termed fruits doctrine. See EXCLUSIONARY RULE; ATTENUATION DOCTRINE; INDEPENDENT-SOURCE RULE; INEVITABLE-DISCOVERY RULE.
fruits of a crime
The proceeds acquired through criminal acts.
natural fruit
Civil law. A product of the land or of animals, whether edible or otherwise useful. ( Examples are crops and eggs. See FRUCTUS NATURALES. 3. Something (such as evidence) obtained during an activity or operation <the fruit of the officer's search>. See FRUIT-OF-THE-POISONOUSTREE DOCTRINE.