( 670 ) of until he had completed his twenty-first year, FUNCTUS. Lat. [from fungor, to disand had reached the twenty-second. (De charge an office.] One who has performed feodo militari habebit hæres plenam ætatem or discharged some function. Functus cum xxi. annum impleverit et xxii. attigerit.) officio; one who has performed some office Bract. fol. 86, 86 b. The son and heir of assigned to him. Platt, J. 15 Johns. R. a socman, on the other hand, was deemed 446. One whose official authority has age when he had completed fifteen years. ceased. Story, J. 1 Gallison's R. 69, 74. Id. ibid. The reason of this difference was Lord Ellenborough, 11 East, 194. Cum that greater maturity and strength, both semel officio tali functus fuerit; when he of mind and body, were requisite for bearshall have once discharged such office. ing arms, and performing the other duties Fleta, lib. 6, c. 37, § 14. This phrase of military or knight's service. Id. ibid. strictly is applicable only to persons, but Litt. sect. 103, 104. Co. Litt. 78 b. is sometimes applied to things, as to the seal of a writ, the endorsement of a commercial instrument, and the like. 19 Johns. R. 170. Mills, J. 3 A. K. Marshall's (Ky.) R. [324,] 1166. Wilde, J. 4 Metcalf's R. 343, 345. 3 Jones' Law R. 492. FULL BLOOD, (or WHOLE BLOOD.) A term of relation, denoting descent from the same couple. Brothers and sisters of full blood are those who are born of the same father and mother, or, as Justinian calls them, ex utroque parente conjuncti. Nov. 118, c. 2, 3. 1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 140, § 132. The more usual term in modern law is whole blood, (q. v.)