Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
2. (Scots Law) Movable goods which may be valued by weight or
measure, in contradistinction from those which must be
judged of individually. --Jamieson.