fiar, n. Sc.
(ˈfiːə(r))
Also 6, 8 fear and see feuar.
[? f. fee n.2 + -ar, -er.]
The owner of the fee-simple of a property, as opposed to the life-renter. conjunct fiar (see quot. 1597).
| 1597 Skene De Verb. Sign. s.v. Feodum, In this case the husband is proprietar and the wife is conjunct fear or liferentar. 1646 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1819) VI. 204 If the partie Delinquent be..a Fiar, or hes any estate contracted to him. 1734 R. Keith Hist. Ch. Scot. 50 note, The Persons contained in the Summons were these viz. Norman Leslie, Fear of Rothes, &c. 1815 Scott Guy M. xxxvii, The old lady was certainly absolute fiar. 1832 Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. l. 858 The fiar (i.e. dominus or reversioner) may enter and work them. 1883 Ld. R. Clark in Law Reports 9 App. Cases 315/1 The trust purposes fail, so that the truster is the fiar of the trust estate. |