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 inherent value.
civil fruit. Civil law. Revenue derived from a thing by operation of law or by reason of a juridical act, such as lease or interest payments, or certain corporate distributions. La. Civ. Code art. 551. See FRUCTUS CIVILES.
natural fruit. Civil law. A product of the land or of animals. • Examples are crops and eggs. La. Civ. Code art. 2317. 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-POISONOUS-TREE DOCTRINE.
