Fungibles Law and Legal Definition
Funglibles are goods which are interchangeable, often sold or delivered in bulk, since any one of them is as good as another. Fungible goods have no distinguishing characteristics from others of like kind, such as grains or oils, so that they can be easily replaced or substituted. When items are sold by weight or number, that is an indication that they may be fungible goods.
The following is an example of a state statute dealing with fungible goods:
- "Unless the warehouse receipt otherwise provides, a warehouseman must keep separate the goods covered by each receipt so as to permit at all times identification and delivery of those goods except that different lots of fungible goods may be commingled.
- Fungible goods so commingled are owned in common by the persons entitled thereto and the warehouseman is severally liable to each owner for that owner's share. Where because of overissue a mass of fungible goods is insufficient to meet all the receipts which the warehouseman has issued against it, the persons entitled include all holders to whom overissued receipts have been duly negotiated."
