In property law

Property law

Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property and in personal property, within the common law legal system. In the civil law system, there is a division between movable and immovable property...

, fructus naturales are the natural fruits of the land on which they arise, such as agricultural produce and wild game. In many common law

Common law

Common law is law developed by judges through decisions of courts and similar tribunals rather than through legislative statutes or executive branch action...

 legal systems, fructus naturales are considered to be part of the real property

Real property

In English Common Law, real property, real estate, realty, or immovable property is any subset of land that has been legally defined and the improvements to it made by human efforts: any buildings, machinery, wells, dams, ponds, mines, canals, roads, various property rights, and so forth...

, and not separate chattels in relation to any legal conveyance of the property.

This term originates from the term fructus naturales

Fructus (Roman law)

Fructus was a legal term used in Roman law to describe products which originate from both natural sources and legal transactions ....

 used in the Roman law

Roman law

Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, and the legal developments which occurred before the 7th century AD — when the Roman–Byzantine state adopted Greek as the language of government. The development of Roman law comprises more than a thousand years of jurisprudence — from the Twelve...

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