fund

the Presidential Election Campaign Fund established by section 9006(a).

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“Merely a name for a collection or an appropriation of money. It may be nothing but a designation of one branch of the accounts of the state; or of a certain amount of money, when collected to be applied to a particular purpose. It may have no property and represent no investments; and what are called its revenues may Include all the moneys appropriated or directed to be paid to it, or for its benefit, or that of the objects it represents.” People V. R. Co., 34 Barb. (N. Y.) 135. See Stephens’ Ex’rs v. Milnor, 24 N. J. Eq. 358; • 7 H. L. Cas. 273; Miller v. Bradish, 69 la. 278, 28 N. W. 594.

n. A sum of money set apart for a specific purpose or available for the payment of debts or claims.

In its narrower and more usual sense, "fund" signifies "capital," as opposed to "interest" or "income ;" as where we speak of a corporation funding the arrears of interest due on its bands, or the like, meaning that the interest is capitalized and made to bear interest in its turn until it is repaid. Sweet. In the plural, this word has a variety of slightly different meanings, as follows: 1. Money in hand; cash; money available for the payment of a debt, legacy, etc. Galena Ins. Ch v. Kupfer, 28 Ili. 335, 81 Am. Dec. 284. 2., The proceeds of sales of real and personal estate, or the proceeds of any other assets converted into money. Doane v. Insurance Co., 43 N. J. Eq. 533, 11 Atl. 739. 3. Corporate stocks or government securities; in this sense usually spoken of as the "funds." 4. Assets, securities, bonds, or revenue of a state or government appropriated for the discharge of its debts.

— Public funds. An untechnical name for
(1) the revenue or money of a government, state, or municipal corporation;
(2) the bonds, stocks, or other securities of a national or state government.

— Sinking fund. The aggregate of sums of money (as those arising from particular taxes or sources of revenue) set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervnis, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government or corporation, by the accumulation of interest. Elser v. Ft. Worth (Tex. Civ. App.) 27 S. W. 740; Union Pac. R. Co. v. Buffalo County Com'rs, 9 Neb. 449, 4 N. W. 53; Brooke v. Philadelphia, 162 Pa. 123, 29 Atl. 387, 24 In R. A. 781.

— General fund. This phrase, in New York, is a collective designation of all the assets of the state which furnish the means for the support of government and for defraying the discretionary appropriations of the legislature. People v. Orange County Sup'rs, 27 Barb. (N. Y.) 575, 588.

v. To capitalize with a view to the production of interest. Stephen v. Mil-nor, 24 N. J. Eq. 376. Also, to put into the form of bonds, stocks or other securities, bearing regular interest, and to provide or appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment thereof. Merrill v. Monticello (C. C.) 22 Fed. 596.
—Funded deht. To fund a debt is to pledge a specific fund to keep down the interest and reduce the principal. The term "fund" was originally applied to a portion of the national revenue set apart or pledged to the payment of a particular debt. Hence, as applied to the pecuniary obligations of states or municipal corporations, a funded debt is lane for the payment of which (interest and principal) some fund is appropriated, either specifically, or by provision made for future taxation and the quasi pledging in advance of the public revenue. Ketehum v. Buffalo, 14 N. Y. 356; People v. Carpenter, 31 App. Div. 603, 52 N. Y. Supp. 781. As applied to the financial management of corporations (and sometimes of estates in course of administration or properties under receivership) funding means the borrowing of a sufficient sum of money to discharge a variety of floating or unsecured debts, or debts evidenced by notes or secured by bands but maturing within a short time, and creating a new debt in lieu thereof, secured by a general mortgage, a series of bonds, or an issue of stock, generally maturing at a more remote period, and often at a lower rate of interest. The new debt thus substituted for the pre-existing debts is called the "funded debt." See Ketehum v. Buffalo, 14 N. Y. 356; People v. Carpenter, 31 App. Div. 603, 62 N. Y. Supp. 781; Lawrey v. Sterling, 41 Or. 518, 69 Pac. 460. This term is very seldom applied to the debts of a private individual; but when so used it must be understood as referring to a debt embodied in securities of a permanent character and to the payment of which certain property has been applied or pledged. Wells v. Wells (Super. N. Y.) 24 N. Y. Supp. 874.
—Funding system. The practice of borrowing money to defray the expenses of government, and creating a "sinking fund," designed to keep down interest, and to effect the gradual reduction of the principal debt. Merrill v. Monticello (C. C.) 22 Fed. 596.

n. A sum of money set apart for In its narrower and more usual sense, “fund” signifies “capital,” as opposed to “interest” or *income;” as where we speak of a corporation funding the arrears of interest due on its bonds, or the like, meaning that the iutcrest is capitalized and made to bear interest in its turn until it is repaid. Sweet.