A public officer or em- ploy
Category: F
FUNCTUS OFFICIO
Lat Having fulfilled the function, discharged the office, or accomplished the purpose, and therefore of no further force or authority. Applied to an officer whose term has expired, and who has consequently no further official authority;and also to an instrument, power, agency, etc.. which has fulfilled the purpose of its creation, and is therefore of no further virtue or effect.
FUNCTIONAL DEPRECIATION
FUND
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, bearingregular interest, and to provide or appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for thepayment thereof. Merrill v. Monticello (C. C.) 22 Fed. 596.
FUNCTIONAL DISEASE
In medical jurisprudence. One which prevents, obstructs, orinterferes with the due performance of its special functions by any organ of the body,without anatomical defect or abnormality In the organ itself. See Higbee v. GuardianMut L. Ins. Co., 66 Barb. (N. Y.) 472. Distinguished from “organic” disease, which is dueto some injury to, or lesion or malformation in, the organ in question.