Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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FIAR, n.1 Also †fiear. Sc. Law: the ultimate and absolute possessor of a property as distinguished from a life-renter of it; one who has the reversion of property. [′fi:ər]Ayr. 1700 Arch. and Hist. Coll. Ayr. and Wgt. IV. 199:
Johne Crawfurd fiear of Dalegles.Sc. 1750 W. McFarlane Geneal. Coll. (S.H.S.) I. 39:
Succeeded to his Brither Robert Munro Younger of Fowlis and Fiar thereof.Sc. 1816 Scott B. Dwarf x.:
She's a life-renter, and I am a fiar, o' the lands o' Wideopen.Sc. 1931 H. Furber H. Dundas 178:
The fiar, the person in whom (subject to the life-renter's possession) the fee, or full property of the estate, was rested.
