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Fundus




Fundus

Civil law. Any portion of land whatever, without considering the use or employ to which it is applied.

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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.

Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.

Portion
That part of a parent's estate, or the estate of one standing in loco parentis, which is given to a child.

Without
Pleading. This word is adopted in formal traverses, and is a negative signifying "and not for;" accordingly the language of the elder entries sometimes is, It et nemy pur tiel cause.



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Fundamental
This word is applied to those laws which are the foundation of society. Those laws by which the exercise of power is restrained and regulated, are fundamental. The Constitution of the United States is the fundamental law of the land.

Fundamental breach
A common law principle first developed in English decisions in the 1930's, which became very popular in the U.K. and British Commonwealth jurisdictions in the 1960's, prior to the enactment of consumer protection legislation. By virtue of this doctrine, a party who had committed an intentional breach of contract so serious as to "go to the root of the contract", depriving the other contracting party of substantially the whole benefit of the contract, was held to have fundamentally breached the contract and was consequently deprived of the protection of limitation and exception clauses in the contract.

Funded debt
That part of the national debt for which certain funds are appropriated towards the payment of the interest.

Funding system
English law. The name given to a plan which provides that on the creation of a public loan, funds shall immediately be formed, and secured by law, for the payment of the interest, until the state shall redeem the whole, and also for the gradual redemption of the capital itself. This gradual redemption of the capital is called the sinking of the debt, and the fund so appropriated is called the sinking fund.

Funds
Cash on hands; as, A B is in funds to pay my bill on him; stocks, as, A B has $1000 in the funds. By public funds is understood, the taxes, customs, &c . appropriated by the, government for the discharge of its obligations.



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Fundamental
This word is applied to those laws which are the foundation of society. Those laws by which the exercise of power is restrained and regulated, are fundamental. The Constitution of the United States is the fundamental law of the land.

Fundamental breach
A common law principle first developed in English decisions in the 1930's, which became very popular in the U.K. and British Commonwealth jurisdictions in the 1960's, prior to the enactment of consumer protection legislation. By virtue of this doctrine, a party who had committed an intentional breach of contract so serious as to "go to the root of the contract", depriving the other contracting party of substantially the whole benefit of the contract, was held to have fundamentally breached the contract and was consequently deprived of the protection of limitation and exception clauses in the contract.

Funded debt
That part of the national debt for which certain funds are appropriated towards the payment of the interest.

Funding system
English law. The name given to a plan which provides that on the creation of a public loan, funds shall immediately be formed, and secured by law, for the payment of the interest, until the state shall redeem the whole, and also for the gradual redemption of the capital itself. This gradual redemption of the capital is called the sinking of the debt, and the fund so appropriated is called the sinking fund.

Funds
Cash on hands; as, A B is in funds to pay my bill on him; stocks, as, A B has $1000 in the funds. By public funds is understood, the taxes, customs, &c . appropriated by the, government for the discharge of its obligations.

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Funeral expenses
Money expended in procuring the interment of a corpse. The person who orders the funeral is responsible personally for the expenses, and if the estate of the deceased should be insolvent, he must lose the amount. But if there are assets sufficient to pay these expenses, the executor or administrator is bound, upon an implied assumpsit, to pay them.

Fungible
A term used in the civil, French, and Scotch law, it signifies anything whatever, which consists in quantity, and is regulated by number, weight, or measure; such as corn, wine, or money..

Fungibles
Goods which are comprised of many identical parts such as a bushel of grain or a barrel of apples or oil, and which can be easily replaced by other, identical goods. If the goods are sold by weight or number, this is a good sign that they are fungible.

Furca
The gallows.

Furiosi nulla voluntas est
A Latin expression that mentally impaired persons cannot validly sign a will.

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