fruit

The produce of a tree or plant which contains the seed or is used for food. The edible reproductive body of a seed plant. The effect or consequence of an act or operation.

@ civil fruits

In the civil law (fructus civiles) are such things as the rents and income of real property, the interest on money loaned, and annuities. Rents and revenues of an immovable

@ fruit fallen

In old English law, the produce of any possession detached therefrom, and capable of being enjoyed by itself. Thus, a next presentation, when a vacancy has occurred, is a fruit fallen from the advowson. Natural fruits. In the civil law, the produce of the soil, or of fruit-trees, bushes, vines, etc., which are edible or otherwise useful or serve for the reproduction of their species. The term is used in contradistinction to "artificial fruits," i.e., such as by metaphor or analogy are likened to the fruits of the earth. Of the latter, interest on money is an example

@ fruit and the tree doctrine

The courts have held that an individual who earns income from his property or services cannot assign that income to another to avoid taxation. For example, a father cannot assign his earnings from commissions to his son and escape income tax on such amount

@ fruit of poisonous tree doctrine

Evidence which is spawned by or directly derived from an illegal search or illegal interrogation is generally inadmissible against the defendant because of its original taint, though knowledge of facts gained independently of the original and tainted search is admissible. Wong Sun v. U. S., 371 U.S. 471, 83 S.Ct. 407, 9 L.Ed.2d 441.

This doctrine is to the effect that an unlawful search taints not only evidence obtained at the search, but facts discovered by process initiated by the unlawful search. This doctrine is generally applied to cases involving searches in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution right against unlawful searches and seizures, but it can be applied to searches in violation of a statutory right. Duncan v. State, 278 Ala. 145, 176 So.2d 840, 865.

See exclusionary rule

@ fruits of crime

In the law of evidence, material objects acquired by means and in consequence of the commission of crime, and sometimes constituting the subjectmatter of the crime.

See also fruit of poisonous tree doctrine

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