sb. Sc. Also 6, 8 fear and see FEUAR. [? f. FEE sb.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. I. 858. The fiar (i.e. dominus or reversioner) may enter and work them, paying surface damage, provided he do no novel injury to the amenity of the liferenter’s possession.
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.
