fiar

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   in Scotland, an officially determined standard price, especially an annual legally fixed price for grain; usually used in the plural fiars

   The county fiars established the value of each grade of grain for that year.

2. 2
   noun

   in Scots law, a person in whom ownership of an estate is vested subject to another person's liferent

   The fiar could not take possession while the liferenter remained alive.

The grain-price noun comes from Middle English feor, through Old French fuer or feor, 'price,' ultimately from Latin forum, 'market.' The Scots property-law noun is a separate formation from fee + the agent suffix -ar.

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