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Fungibles \Fun"gi*bles\, n. pl. [LL. (res) fungibiles, probably
fr. L. fungi to discharge. "A barbarous term, supposed to
have originated in the use of the words functionem recipere
in the Digeste." Bouvier. "Called fungibiles, quia una
alterius vice fungitur." John Taylor (1755). Cf. {Function}.]
1. (Civ. Law) Things which may be furnished or restored in
kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called
also {fungible things}. --Burrill.
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2. (Scots Law) Movable goods which may be valued by weight or
measure, in contradistinction from those which must be
judged of individually. --Jamieson.
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