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Fungibility
In economics and law, fungibility is the property of something whose individual units are considered fundamentally interchangeable with each other.
For example, the fungibility of money means that a $100 bill (note) is considered entirely equivalent to another $100 bill, or to twenty $5 bills and so on, and therefore a person who borrows $100 in the form of a $100 bill can repay the money with another $100 bill, with twenty $5 bills and so on. Non-fungible items are not considered substitutable in the same manner, even if essentially identical.
Fungibility is an important concept in finance and commerce, where financial securities, currencies and physical commodities such as gold and oil are normally considered fungible. Fungibility affects how legal rights, such as the ownership of assets in custody and the right to receive goods under a contract, apply in certain circumstances, and it thereby simplifies trading and custody.
Fungibility refers only to the equivalence and indistinguishability of each unit of a commodity or other thing with other units of the same thing, and not to the ability to easily trade it for something else or the equivalence of two things in value.
Fungible goods include gold, other precious metals, crude oil and many agricultural products. The fungibility of these goods facilitates their trading as commodities. In many cases, fungibility within a type of good is divided by grade and quality. For example, crude oil is divided into Brent Crude, West Texas Intermediate and other grades, which are not all fungible with each other.
The legal recognition of fungibility is limited. Units of a single model of a product (a model of microwave or a toy, for example) would not generally be treated as fungible even though identical, as there is no trading in the product and no context in which two units might be considered legally interchangeable. Diamonds and other gems are not considered fungible because their varying cuts, colors, grades, and sizes make each one unique. Even if two could be found to be almost indistinguishable or of equal value, they are not considered fungible with each other because diamonds as a class are not recognised as fungible.
The fungibility of a type of good can sometimes depend on context. Although gold is generally fungible, in whatever form it exists, a unique item such as a gold statuette would not be considered fungible with the same weight of gold in some other form.
The traditional definition of a security, which includes shares, bonds and similar financial instruments, is a "fungible, negotiable instrument". An "instrument" refers to its status as a legal document and "negotiable" means that the owner can transfer it with good title, even though it itself may have had defective title.
Fungibility
In economics and law, fungibility is the property of something whose individual units are considered fundamentally interchangeable with each other.
For example, the fungibility of money means that a $100 bill (note) is considered entirely equivalent to another $100 bill, or to twenty $5 bills and so on, and therefore a person who borrows $100 in the form of a $100 bill can repay the money with another $100 bill, with twenty $5 bills and so on. Non-fungible items are not considered substitutable in the same manner, even if essentially identical.
Fungibility is an important concept in finance and commerce, where financial securities, currencies and physical commodities such as gold and oil are normally considered fungible. Fungibility affects how legal rights, such as the ownership of assets in custody and the right to receive goods under a contract, apply in certain circumstances, and it thereby simplifies trading and custody.
Fungibility refers only to the equivalence and indistinguishability of each unit of a commodity or other thing with other units of the same thing, and not to the ability to easily trade it for something else or the equivalence of two things in value.
Fungible goods include gold, other precious metals, crude oil and many agricultural products. The fungibility of these goods facilitates their trading as commodities. In many cases, fungibility within a type of good is divided by grade and quality. For example, crude oil is divided into Brent Crude, West Texas Intermediate and other grades, which are not all fungible with each other.
The legal recognition of fungibility is limited. Units of a single model of a product (a model of microwave or a toy, for example) would not generally be treated as fungible even though identical, as there is no trading in the product and no context in which two units might be considered legally interchangeable. Diamonds and other gems are not considered fungible because their varying cuts, colors, grades, and sizes make each one unique. Even if two could be found to be almost indistinguishable or of equal value, they are not considered fungible with each other because diamonds as a class are not recognised as fungible.
The fungibility of a type of good can sometimes depend on context. Although gold is generally fungible, in whatever form it exists, a unique item such as a gold statuette would not be considered fungible with the same weight of gold in some other form.
The traditional definition of a security, which includes shares, bonds and similar financial instruments, is a "fungible, negotiable instrument". An "instrument" refers to its status as a legal document and "negotiable" means that the owner can transfer it with good title, even though it itself may have had defective title.