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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Its most restricted sense, cash on hand. In a wider sense it includes commercial paper (3 B. Mon. [Ky.] 8); in a still more extended sense, property of every kind, when such property is contemplated as something to be used or applied in the payment of debts (69 Iowa, 278). FUNDUS (Lat. land). A portion of territory belonging to a person; a farm; lands, including houses.

4 Coke, 87; Co. Litt. 5a; 3 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 209.