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fungible things

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.
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